Blog: Visual culture

14 March 2012

Chain reactions.

Chain reactions.

the poster department

Non-Format on visual metaphors for business relationships
Eye 81, the ‘Designers and clients’ issue, featured four designers and their commissions for IBM's…

13 March 2012

Type Tuesday. Baby love

Type Tuesday. Baby love

andy martin, type tuesday

Andy Martin and his affection for the Studio Book of Alphabets
Sometime in the early 1950s (before even I was born) my old man bought a…

12 March 2012

Look for the purple lining

Look for the purple lining

catherine griffiths

Catherine Griffiths on another link between fashion and photography.
As a graphic designer in the late 1980s, working my career in London, I used my…

9 March 2012

Treutler’s Hollywood

Treutler’s Hollywood

the poster department

Celebration of classic Polish poster design enters its final week
Shoreditch-based Kemistry Gallery is showing ‘Mr T: The Posters of Jerzy Treutler’. The exhibition runs…

8 March 2012

Organisation vs anarchy.

Organisation vs anarchy.

the poster department

Thomas Couderc of Helmo on working with Big Blue
The cover of Eye 81 featured a detail from an illustration commissioned for IBM’s ‘Smarter…

7 March 2012

Racism revisited

Racism revisited

Mexico’s advertisers can’t escape their obsession with unfeasible whiteness
Regular Eye readers may remember a thematically diverse series of articles from Mexico that I’ve…

6 March 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

A facelift for Italian daily Corriere della Sera – from Brera and Solferino
In late 2004 Gianluigi Colin, design director at Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera –…

29 February 2012

All about photography

All about photography

On Eve Arnold’s centenary, a powerful photojournalism retrospective
In our ‘celebrity-obsessed’ times there is a danger that Eve Arnold will be remembered solely as…

28 February 2012

Type Tuesday: Iron curtain Vegas

Type Tuesday: Iron curtain Vegas

robert hanks, type tuesday

Ilona Karwińska shoots the lions and mermaids of Polish Cold War Neon
In the mind’s eye, the Eastern Europe of the cold war is painted with a…

25 February 2012

Javier & Fernando & Bebo

Javier & Fernando & Bebo

Mariscal’s full length movie Chico & Rita is in the running for an Oscar
As this weekend’s 84th Academy Awards ceremony brings the season of movie awards madness to…
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