26 September 2017

Type safari in Andalucía

Type safari in Andalucía

Stephen ONeill

Stephen ONeill, aka TypeChap, relishes the beauty of peeling and fractured letterforms in signs on Andalucian streets
Andalucía, the largest region in southern Spain, has severe weather. And over time, it has…

20 September 2017

Noted #83

Noted #83

Eye editors

Sea Prayer, Poster House, Pit, Straight No Chaser and National 2
Here are a few things – VR journalism, Poster House, new issues of Pit and…

18 September 2017

Sea levellers

Sea levellers

John L. Walters

The 2017 Folkestone Triennial turns this seaside town into an open-air gallery for a kind of applied conceptual art … with a graphic edge
Folkestone is hosting its fourth Triennial, a two-month-long festival of contemporary art that can be…

13 September 2017

Robin Broadbent interview

Robin Broadbent interview

Richard Krzyzak

In this follow-up to ‘Obsessive meditations’ in Eye 94, art director Richard Krzykak interviews photographer Robin Broadbent about his practice

Art director Richard Krzykak interviews photographer Robin Broadbent about his practice.

6 September 2017

Books received #28 (music and visual culture)

Books received #28 (music and visual culture)

John L. Walters

The design and look of music – from classical CDs and rave culture to stock (library) album covers and jazz photography
Here are some musically inclined books that came to our attention in recent months. Spread…

31 August 2017

The look of literature

The look of literature

Robert Hanks

The Man Booker longlist provides a snapshot of graphic design for literary fiction. By Robert Hanks
The variety of the novels on this year’s Man Booker longlist is reflected in the…

22 August 2017

Zines with superpowers

Zines with superpowers

Oswin Tickler

In the shadow of Grenfell, local children make pages for a magazine workshop. By Oswin Tickler
The devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in West London in June 2017 is still having…

9 August 2017

Wallcats take Chicago

Wallcats take Chicago

Meredith Kasabian

The future of sign painting is female, declares Meredith Kasabian, co-curator of a new show featuring under-represented women sign painters
On Friday 8 September 2017 the work of more than 60 women sign painters from…

30 July 2017

Letterheads in Oslo

Letterheads in Oslo

Helen Ingham

A report from the informal annual gathering of signwriters, pinstripers, calligraphers and other lettering experts. By Helen Ingham
Last month the ‘Letterheads’ met for their annual meeting, which this year took place in…

25 July 2017

Felt-tip fundamentals

Felt-tip fundamentals

John L. Walters

Ink soaks into paper as Daniel Eatock’s mark-making processes result in a riot of colour
Designer and artist Daniel Eatock has a good-natured but unswerving way of reducing things to…
 
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