Eye Magazine

Blog: Graphic design

29 August 2010

Brief. En. Counter

john l. walters

#graphicdesignmovies and Twitter’s chronicles of wasted time

Most of the Earth’s 6.79bn inhabitants know nothing of Twitter, but for those of us…

24 August 2010

A quick burst of sound

emily king

Zurich this autumn: the typographic music of posters made of letters

‘Writing is Drawing is Writing’ is a declaration by the late graphic designer Alan Fletcher…

22 August 2010

Signs of The Times

john l. walters

The enduring appeal of bizarre road signs and notices, from then and now

My mother, Margaret, always delighted in funny street signs when we went on road trips…

19 August 2010

Barbara Wojirsch: Eyes and ears

the music department

A rare glimpse of the art and craft behind ECM’s visual identity

Adrian Shaughnessy’s article ‘One man brand’ in Eye 76, the Music design special issue, is…

18 August 2010

Up the ante

john ridpath

Should we take the Anti Design Festival as seriously as the LDF?

It’s not entirely clear whether the manifesto for the Anti Design Festival should be taken…

17 August 2010

Offset 2010

bren byrne, the events department

‘There’s a black cloud over the economy ... we’re a beacon of hope’

Designers will be descending on Dublin twice over the next two months. First up is…

9 August 2010

Music to treasure

the music department

Hardformat.org celebrates the visual pleasures associated with listening

For our music design special issue (out now), Eye talked to Hardformat’s Colin Buttimer about…

3 August 2010

Guiding light

maggie fost

Merge’s Maggie Fost on the graphic designer as musical tour guide

As the art director for a small independent record label, my audience is a specific…

2 August 2010

Music design issue in the making

the production department

Pictures of the latest edition of Eye magazine on press at Beacon

Here, by popular demand (and without commentary) are some pictures of Eye 76, our Music…

29 July 2010

Going green