Blog: Graphic design

6 April 2011

Surface to space

Surface to space

archive, marian bantjes

Maths, computers and the internet bring new life to the art of origami
Most of us are familiar with the art of paper folding, perhaps as an amusing…

5 April 2011

Back in the USSR

Back in the USSR

john ridpath, the events department

Remarkable film posters from Lithuania’s Soviet years
Under Soviet rule, Lithuanian film poster designers had to get their work past the cultural…

4 April 2011

Exquisite discourse

Exquisite discourse

hamish thompson

Poet meets graphic artist meets type designer, and the consequence is …
A graphic artist and a typeface designer, working blind to each other, design two-word typographic…

2 April 2011

Cover story

Cover story

New trade version of monograph celebrating the inventor of LP design
The first illustrated album cover – for ‘albums’ of 78rpm records – was designed in 194…

30 March 2011

Bravo, Charlie

Bravo, Charlie

alexander ecob

Playing with phonetic typography at the Kemistry gallery
Hot on the heels of their intriguing exhibition of Saul Bass posters, the Kemistry gallery…

29 March 2011

Posters on sticks

Posters on sticks

sally jeffery

A vast river of banner-bearing humanity with something to say
Here is a postscript to Eye’s poster debate, writes Sally Jeffery (see ‘Help! Poster initiatives…

28 March 2011

Magnificent seven

Magnificent seven

peter griffith

Quickfire presentations by Manchester designers at ‘Inspiration Night’
Following the inspirational presentations put on at the Manchester Design Symposium last Wednesday, approximately 15…

22 March 2011

Out of office

Out of office

katie parry

A few words about Birmingham’s Type Writing Symposium
It’s not often I take time out of the studio to do some proper thinking…

20 March 2011

Fixed compass

Fixed compass

the history department

David Gentleman talks about his identity design for British Steel
The most recent issue of Eye includes a Reputations interview with David Gentleman, whose career…

18 March 2011

Help!

Help!

alexander ecob

Poster initiatives mean well, but what are designers raising awareness of?
Is there a need for an awareness-raising campaign for one of the worst natural disasters…
 
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