Eye Magazine

16 March 2011

Tarnished idol

alexander ecob

British Museum presents the public and private art of Eric Gill

His eponymous typeface is frequently used to evoke a sense of unadulterated, stiff-upper-lipped Britishness, but…

15 March 2011

Doing the right thing

john ridpath, the events department

UCL seminar to discuss the ethics of graphic design

Back in the summer of 1994, Andrew Howard reminded Eye readers of ‘First Things First’…

14 March 2011

Art shaped box

the events department

South African art in a new limited edition portfolio by I-Jusi magazine

South African graphic design magazine I-Jusi was first produced in 1995, designed and founded by…

10 March 2011

Entente cordiale

natalie ferris

A pre-Chaumont RCA show juxtaposes cross-Channel poster art

Posters shout, jostle, and cajole. They blister every surface from bedroom wall to tube-train, from…

9 March 2011

Wild vision

wayne ford

Wayne Ford on the art and craft of wildlife photography

In 1884, Ottmar Anschütz made his now famous studies of storks, writes Wayne Ford. The…

7 March 2011

Picturing Ma’am

john ridpath

From stamps to portraiture: the images of a Royal subject

After a short-lived period of panic and confusion earlier this year, it was announced that…

4 March 2011

Context is king

alexander ecob

Life-logging could be a treasure trove for information designers

Hardly a week goes by without a new story of someone’s personal data being left…

3 March 2011

Downtown canon

john l. walters

Installation, performance and drawing in the Barbican gallery

An ambitious new Barbican exhibition opens today, writes John L. Walters. Entitled ‘Laurie Anderson, Trisha…

1 March 2011

Critique: French connections

rick poynor, the magazine department

Back Cover signals an allegiance to graphic design as a serious endeavour

In his latest Web-only Critique, Rick Poynor looks at the French graphic design and typography…

28 February 2011

Let’s work together