15 February 2011

Stendhal moments

Stendhal moments

john ridpath, the events department

Overwhelming beauty in scientific research – at Boijmans in Rotterdam
An astonishing collection of images of great beauty from the natural sciences went on show…

14 February 2011

Billion-dollar brainteaser

Billion-dollar brainteaser

gill ross

Gill Ross on David McCandless’s ‘beautiful’ Billion-Dollar-O-Gram
Great moments in information design (continued). We have so much access to information now, writes…

11 February 2011

Musicalculator

Musicalculator

the music department

Let musical data communicate the sweet sound of information
The latest issue of Eye celebrates the visualisation of information (among other things), but let’s…

9 February 2011

Phil Sayer and Robert Marsden

Phil Sayer and Robert Marsden

the picture department

‘Manhattan in Moscow’ and ‘Contradictions’ at the Marsden Woo
Phil Sayer’s photographs of Soviet architecture (below) go on show alongside the uncomprimisingly minimalist metal…

9 February 2011

Seven-colour marathon

Seven-colour marathon

john l. walters, the production department

On press at Pureprint with Simon Esterson; printing the Eye 78 cover
A few weeks ago I went down to Uckfield, to see Eye 78 on press…

8 February 2011

The numbers man

The numbers man

alexander ecob

Nicholas Felton talks to Eye about the allure of data-driven storytelling
As he reaches the final stages of his latest Annual Report, Nicholas Felton finds time…

7 February 2011

Opening shots

Opening shots

archive, joel karamath, the movie department

Two classic movie title sequences from Saul Bass and Maurice Binder
The latest Eye Critique deals with the hallucinatory title sequence to Gaspar Noé’s Enter the…

4 February 2011

Check me out

Check me out

camilla grey

Social media has turned personality into a carefully curated ‘brand’
I recently wrote a post* about living in the era of the over-share, writes Camilla…

3 February 2011

And more again

And more again

eye editors

Information design and graphics in Eye 78, our biggest ever issue
It has been printed, packaged and delivered to subscribers and bookshops all over the world…

1 February 2011

Dying darkrooms, ascending apps

Dying darkrooms, ascending apps

alexander ecob

London photography exhibitions go from the sublime to the ridiculous
Despite the excitement of our digital futures, and the wealth of possibilities new technologies present…