Blog: Graphic design

15 March 2011

Doing the right thing

Doing the right thing

john ridpath, the events department

UCL seminar to discuss the ethics of graphic design
Back in the summer of 1994, Andrew Howard reminded Eye readers of ‘First Things First’…

14 March 2011

Art shaped box

Art shaped box

the events department

South African art in a new limited edition portfolio by I-Jusi magazine
South African graphic design magazine I-Jusi was first produced in 1995, designed and founded by…

10 March 2011

Entente cordiale

Entente cordiale

natalie ferris

A pre-Chaumont RCA show juxtaposes cross-Channel poster art
Posters shout, jostle, and cajole. They blister every surface from bedroom wall to tube-train, from…

7 March 2011

Picturing Ma’am

Picturing Ma’am

john ridpath

From stamps to portraiture: the images of a Royal subject
After a short-lived period of panic and confusion earlier this year, it was announced that…

4 March 2011

Context is king

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

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

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’?

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

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

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…
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