21 April 2009

Think positive, add passion

Think positive, add passion

mike radcliffe

Despatches from the frontline of designer recruitment
We’re picking up, it’s getting busier, exclaims Mike Radcliffe. April is bright, filled with hope…

20 April 2009

Rue Britanica

Rue Britanica

john l. walters

Typeface name changes after Eye magazine goes to press
It’s the moment every journalist and editor dreads. You decide to write an article, writes…

17 April 2009

David Hillman

David Hillman

simon esterson

Gems from a master of magazine and newspaper art direction
There has been a lot of talk about golden ages on the Eye blog recently…

17 April 2009

Revival! preview

Revival! preview

the type department

Speed-dating, craft, obsessive photography and The DFC
Revival!: Eighth Annual Friends of St Bride Library Conference St Bride Library, London, 23 and…

16 April 2009

‘Cindy Sherman’ in Mayfair

‘Cindy Sherman’ in Mayfair

wayne ford

Portraits of the artist as a wealthy American matron
Over the past 30 years Cindy Sherman has developed an intimate relationship with her camera…

16 April 2009

Golden age of type blogs 2

Golden age of type blogs 2

the type department

Ten more to argue about in those precious spare moments
Many of you have already told us what you thought about our choice of the…

14 April 2009

Drawn to be wilder

Drawn to be wilder

rian hughes

Rian Hughes explores magazine hand-lettering in the latest issue of Eye
Custom type was not an occasional indulgent art in the pre-digital dark ages, it was…

14 April 2009

Golden age of type blogs?

Golden age of type blogs?

the type department

A whistle-stop tour through the top ten typographic weblogs
Here, at last, is our Easter week type special: the top ten type blogs, chosen…

9 April 2009

Out of the Fog and into the Fab

Out of the Fog and into the Fab

jan middendorp

Robothon 2009’s hi-tech type tools give automation to the superfamilies
Only a few decades ago, a conference about new developments in typographic technology would have…

8 April 2009

Cutting some Slack for the AR

Cutting some Slack for the AR

simon esterson

A framework that’s more than just a (projected) shadow of its former self
The Architectural Review, the 113-year-old monthly known simply as ‘the AR’ by its visually aware…