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Blog: Graphic design

4 March 2011

Context is king

alexander ecob

Life-logging could be a treasure trove for information designers

Hardly a week goes by without a new story of someone’s personal data being left…

1 March 2011

Critique: French connections

rick poynor, the magazine department

Back Cover signals an allegiance to graphic design as a serious endeavour

In his latest Web-only Critique, Rick Poynor looks at the French graphic design and typography…

24 February 2011

Port of entry

john l. walters, the magazine department

Two art directors and an editor launch a brand new men’s magazine

You could be forgiven for thinking that the cold Spring of 2011, with its cutbacks…

23 February 2011

What’s ‘The Story’?

andrew losowsky

Miscellaneous ‘creatives’ re-imagine themselves as ‘storytellers’

Stories can be dangerous, writes Andrew Losowsky. ‘Don't become your story,’ warned The Dialogue Project’s…

21 February 2011

God’s eye view

anne burdick

Anne Burdick navigates the hippy aesthetics of The Universal Traveler

Great moments in information design (continued). I was cleaning out my father’s studio library when…

16 February 2011

Punching through the din

jim northover

Jim Northover and an ‘inheritance’ of Saul Bass movie posters at Kemistry

It started in the 1960s, writes Jim Northover. It was then that John Lloyd, a…

14 February 2011

Billion-dollar brainteaser

gill ross

Gill Ross on David McCandless’s ‘beautiful’ Billion-Dollar-O-Gram

Great moments in information design (continued). We have so much access to information now, writes…

11 February 2011

Musicalculator

the music department

Let musical data communicate the sweet sound of information

The latest issue of Eye celebrates the visualisation of information (among other things), but let’s…

9 February 2011

Seven-colour marathon

john l. walters, the production department

On press at Pureprint with Simon Esterson; printing the Eye 78 cover

A few weeks ago I went down to Uckfield, to see Eye 78 on press…

8 February 2011

The numbers man