Blog: Technology

20 June 2023

The collaboration games

The collaboration games

London Design Biennale 2023 positions design as a tool for global collaboration. By Gabriela Matuszyk

The biennale theme, ‘The Global Game’, responds to the current cultural climate by referencing Buckminster Fuller’s World Game …

15 May 2023

Type for survival

Type for survival

How type design is helping to save Indigenous Canadian languages from extinction. Will Novosedlik reports

English-speaking designers take it for granted that every typeface will be available in their language …

4 April 2023

Variable grunge

Variable grunge

The typewriter typeface formerly known as ‘Trixie’ gets a makeover and a new name: Neither Confirm Nor Deny (NCND). By Paul Barnes

Trixie was perfect for the age of grunge. It became a visual shorthand for typewriters, with the quality of authenticity …

19 December 2022

Scenography and spectacle

Scenography and spectacle

A new exhibition at the restored Battersea Power Station charts the site’s history, climaxing in a lift that takes visitors 109 metres high. By Janet South
There is a button in the great glass lift in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate…

12 December 2022

Access to the futures of type

Access to the futures of type

‘Inscript’, a five-day virtual type festival, provided a platform for new technologies and new approaches to typography. By Gabriela Matuszyk

The inaugural experimental type festival ‘Inscript’ took place online from 12-16 October 2022 ...

20 September 2022

Analogue survivors

Analogue survivors

Bob Richardson’s collection of BBC-related ephemera at St Bride is a must-see
‘A Kingdom of Cardboard’, which runs until 6 January 2023 at St Bride Library, is an…

23 August 2022

How green is graphic design?

How green is graphic design?

sustainability, TypeTuesday

Experts from the world of print, paper and graphic design discuss sustainability and print on Tuesday 6 September 2022

Join Pureprint’s Richard Owers, Jon Hill (Tortoise), Fedrigoni’s Annette Clayton and Eye’s Simon Esterson and guests to discuss doing the sustainable thing …


8 August 2022

Graphic design live #4

Graphic design live #4

Ghost signs tour in London; Spanish fruit brands in Valencia; Gilles de Brock in Chaumont; Federico Fellini in Zurich

In August, we are heading to London, Valencia, Chaumont and Zurich for a series of design-related events …

2 August 2022

Sparks of inspiration

Sparks of inspiration

A new software package enables designers to render computer algorithms in print – embracing creative randomness and chance

HP Spark is a new printing process with software that gives designers the ability to bring creative coding into their print work …

2 July 2021

Novo Typo goes off the grid

Novo Typo goes off the grid

At Berlin’s A—Z gallery, Dutch designer Mark van Wageningen tests the limits of self-sufficiency with his new project Offgrid. By Jan Middendorp
In Eye 94, four years ago, we described the unorthodox typographic research methods of Amsterdam…
 
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