Blog: Graphic design

31 July 2009

One more day to Just Add Stock

One more day to Just Add Stock

Last chance to enter Eye’s awards for the creative use of library images
It’s your last chance to enter Just Add Stock – Eye magazine’s awards for designs that…

30 July 2009

In the house

In the house

the picture department

At home with Marian Bantjes, subject of Eye 72’s Reputations interview
The summer issue, Eye 72, includes a Reputations interview with Marian Bantjes, with a portrait…

30 July 2009

Straight to no. 1

Straight to no. 1

john o’reilly

‘A great stock image is like a three-minute pop song’ @JustAddStock
A great commercial stock image is like a three-minute pop song: the best have a…

30 July 2009

Pimp my type

Pimp my type

annabel fraser, selina swayne

Did ‘Type Tart Cards’ face the grotesque reality of prostitution?
‘SHE’S BACK! RAUNCHY ROCKWELL THE SLAB SERIF … KERN ME SILLY’. Enter the world of…

29 July 2009

Just Add Stock

Just Add Stock

Get your entries in for Eye’s new awards before the deadline of 31 July
Just Add Stock is Eye magazine’s awards project for print or online designs that use stock…

28 July 2009

Phil Wolstenholme’s fractal visions

Phil Wolstenholme’s fractal visions

david thompson

From china tea sets to hyper-real South Yorkshire landscapes
Blank Screen Syndrome, writes David Thompson, is an exhibition/retrospective of work by Phil Wolstenholme, whose…

27 July 2009

The Form of the Book 6

The Form of the Book 6

fraser muggeridge

Fully Booked vs. Jan Tschichold’sThe Form of the Book; it’s a knockout
In the red corner we have The Form of the Book by Jan Tschichold in…

27 July 2009

Frontline’s big, bold newsprint

Frontline’s big, bold newsprint

john l. walters

A quality, quarterly broadsheet made by moonlighting journalists
Sitting next to a self-absorbed Telegraph reader on the train last week I was reminded…

22 July 2009

Covers galore

Covers galore

the picture department

Alternative designs for the front and back of Eye 72
It can be a long process. Here are the designs we used. To buy a…

17 July 2009

Out of the box

Out of the box

the post room

Another mysterious package from the wacky world of design
Sometime, stuff turns up at the Eye office that nobody knows what to do with…