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Blog: Graphic design

5 July 2012

Taught from a new angle

Oliver Byrne’s Elements of Euclid, 1847 – infodesign history in Eye 82

Euclid’s Elements has been the introductory text to geometry since it was compiled by the…

3 July 2012

Type Tuesday: Reputations

Commercial Type’s Christian Schwartz & Paul Barnes – interviewed in Eye 82

‘There has been typography on the Web for its entire existence, because there are words…

2 July 2012

The art of illumination

Will Burtin, the man who invented infodesign, 1940s – from Eye 82

Born in 1908 in a working-class district of Cologne, nothing about Will Burtin’s childhood suggested…

27 June 2012

Untitled tiles

There’s a pattern to Rob Lowe’s ‘Details’ exhibition at Kemistry Gallery

Rob Lowe has covered the walls of London’s tiny Kemistry Gallery with an array of…

25 June 2012

Lady with the diagram

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Florence Nightingale on Crimean War mortality, 1858 – infodesign in Eye 82

The vision of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’, doing ward rounds in…

21 June 2012

Music, flesh and fantasy

When Mati Klarwein’s hyperactive paintings stole the psychedelic show.

Mati Klarwein is best known for a handful of album covers in the very early…

19 June 2012

Type Tuesday: Forward to page 1

caroline roberts

Managing (Great) expectations with a mix of ‘Pecha Kucha and speed dating’

A thought-provoking evening at the Design Museum marked the launch of Page 1: Great Expectations, the…

18 June 2012

A circle that moved the earth

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Copernicus’s diagram of the planets, 1543 – infodesign history in Eye 82

With the spread of print and Protestantism dethroning old sources of certainty, sixteenth-century Germany was ripe…

14 June 2012

Noted #38

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Details, webfonts, operatic Len Lye, torn posters and Olympic variations

Here are some links to things that have caught the attention of the Eye team…

13 June 2012

Charts change minds