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Blog: Typography

4 March 2010

Up in the Cloud?

john l. walters

Editors and designers huddle together for ‘What’s on your iPad?’

The sold-out ‘What’s On Your iPad’ event, organised jointly by the BSME (British Society of…

1 March 2010

Signs of a city

john ridpath

Eye revisits the typography of Athenian street signs

When Minos Zarifopoulos wrote about Athenian street signs in Eye 45, he worried that a…

24 February 2010

‘A handbag?’

the type department

Studio8 rebrands Central with a dramatic new custom typeface

Matt Willey and Zoe Bather of Studio8 have just announced their integrated design scheme for…

5 February 2010

Lost for words

jane cheng

Designing new sentences from the latest dictionary additions

OK-RM’s cumulative new year publication series asks where English culture is, and what it means to…

3 February 2010

Text without type

john l. walters

Building Sound: can a website work with just speech, space and colour?

Here’s an interesting sound-based concept – a website that has no type or lettering whatsoever…

25 January 2010

Info design before designers

simon esterson, the type department

Could today’s professionals learn a thing or two from the Victorians?

Paul Stiff and his colleagues at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the…

17 January 2010

Critique: All mouth and trousers?

rick poynor

London designers show how little they care for the poster form

A few months ago, writes Rick Poynor, I was asked by the Design Museum to…

5 January 2010

Berlin snapshots: Alessio Leonardi

berlin snapshots, john ridpath

‘Germans are very nice, but they don’t have any idea about structure’

Smashing conventions of Germanic discipline and order, Alessio Leonardi speaks to Eye in the latest…

4 January 2010

Margaret Calvert on Top Gear

the video department

The co-designer of Britain’s road signs hits the open road with James May

Last night, UK television viewers were treated to a little piece of living graphic design…

3 January 2010

Video thrills – the letterpress star