Blog: Visual culture
15 August 2024
Lettering in the landscape
Mark Noad, Chair of the Lettering Arts Trust, considers the training and design behind hand-carved lettering and looks forward to two exhibitions of the carver’s art in the UK
Two questions are regularly levelled at letter-carvers: ‘what typeface is it?’ and ‘don’t you have…
6 August 2024
The Griffin singularity
Designers John Warwicker and Alex McDowell pay tribute to the extraordinary photographer Brian Griffin (1948-2024)
Brian Griffin was a singularity; an odd fish from the Black Country, out of water and on his bike …
11 January 2024
Two winners, 2000 losers
Minnesota’s crowd-sourced flag and seal raise questions for professional design practice, writes Steven McCarthy
Minnesota’s crowd-sourced flag and seal raise questions for professional design practice, writes Steven McCarthy
9 October 2023
FEED’s big vision
A conference in Warsaw devoted to Eastern European design launched a conversation about stories yet untold. By Gabriela Matuszyk
A September 2023 conference in Warsaw launched the first Festival Eastern European Design (FEED).
29 August 2023
Graphic design live #14
John Warwicker in Tokyo and Kyoto; Eastern European Design in Warsaw; Hipgnosis and Christopher Wilson in London; and failed posters of environmental crisis.
With summer coming to a close, Eye presents a selection of current and upcoming events worth noting in your calendars …
17 July 2023
Nothing is real
Bad is the new good. Quentin Newark descends into Japan House for ‘Wave: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts’.
Visiting, you descend stairs, like going into the Underworld …
20 June 2023
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 …
22 May 2023
Patriotic rubbish
Metaphors – even unintentional ones – can deliver a powerful critique. Nigel Ball inspects the flag-strewn waste in UK streets
The flag has become a marketing tool, soon to become litter poking out of a bin …
11 April 2023
Graphic design live #11
Félix Beltrán in Madrid; contemporary book design from China in Berlin; female design in Mexico; and Emigre and Fuse typefaces in New York
Here is a selection of current and upcoming events that piqued the interest of our editorial…
6 March 2023
Books received #52
Weisbeck’s experiments; working class Covid-19 diaries; Connew’s vocabulary of colonisation; Shore’s photographic craft.
We have compiled a list of intriguing titles that have piqued our interest in recent months…