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Blog: Illustration

16 April 2010

Cool for (copy) cats?

sally jeffery

Similarities: from plagiarisation and rip-offs … to homage and inspiration

This seemingly effortless poster by Abram Games, along with its ham-fisted imitator, is one of…

14 April 2010

The stetl and the revolution

El Lissitzky and Jewish picture books in LA: from fantasy to factory

‘Monsters and Miracles’, an exhibition of Jewish picture books, opened on 8 April at the…

9 April 2010

Peake’s Wonderland

john ridpath

‘And what is the use of a book, without pictures or conversation?’

Lewis Carroll’s surreal Alice books have provided endless inspiration for visual reworkings, leaving behind a…

30 March 2010

No wasted space

the form of the book

McSweeney’s celebrates its vision of independent publishing

Art of McSweeney’s celebrates the journal’s design and visual content.

29 March 2010

Visual ping-pong

john ridpath

Designers in London and Berlin have started a creative conversation.

It’s good to talk, and this year’s Art Of Conversation has started up a unique…

23 March 2010

Eye 75, a typography special

Lettering as illustration, calligraphy, type on the Web and much more

The latest issue of Eye has been printed and bound and is now on its way…

15 February 2010

Volkssport design

florian schmidt

Is the design profession at risk thanks to hordes of Web-savvy amateurs?

Here’s Adam Simpson’s illustration (top), which we commissioned for Florian Schmidt’s Eye education article ‘Volkssport…

2 February 2010

Art for aid

How artists and designers can help the Haiti relief effort with their work

To Haiti with love is a new initiative hoping to raise money to help the situation…

8 January 2010

Tools: old friends, new friends

the tools department

Jon Burgerman’s working methods, from felt-tips to tablets

For the first of our new, regular ‘Tools’ posts, Eye talked to illustrator Jon Burgerman…

15 December 2009

The romance of chemicals

hamish thompson

A portrait of Swiss designer Max Schmid, father of ‘Geigy style’, by New Zealand typographer Hamish Thompson

Zurich is a long way from my home in Wellington, New Zealand, so I missed…

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