20 July 2012
Gays, junkies & Africans: who cares?
The international challenges of communicating AIDS awareness
Contemporary consumer society has particular features that present communication challenges for the social service sector…
18 July 2012
Training the big guns
Peter Sullivan’s newspaper war visuals, 1970s & 80s – from Eye 82
Peter Sullivan worked at The Sunday Times in the 1970s and 80s, an era when…
17 July 2012
Best in show
Design through a typographic lens – a report from last night’s TDC Awards in New York by Doug Clouse
Best in show http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3199/2924253970_b60afdf869_o.jpg Design through a typographic lens – a report from last night’s…
16 July 2012
Thought for food
Do graphic designers have an appetite for the challenges of food design?
The ‘International Conference on Designing Food and Designing for Food’ was a two-day event, held…
13 July 2012
Noted #39
Olympic graphics watch – pictograms, logos & signs that keep the flame alive
Here are a few reflections on Olympics graphics that caught our attention.More to come –…
11 July 2012
Big business, big world
Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas, 1953 – infodesign in Eye 82
Long before multinational corporations discovered the usefulness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in ameliorating a…
11 July 2012
Type Tuesday: Naked words
Type-only book covers: austere, functional … or shouting out loud
Once upon a time, book jackets were almost all pure typographic compositions: these were the…
9 July 2012
Every which way
Abbott Miller’s iPad app gives a new framework to contemporary dance
Fifth Wall, an iPad app designed by Abbott Miller for 2wice Arts Foundation, presents an…
6 July 2012
Otl Aicher’s interjections
The ‘Munich ’72’ Design Legacy exhibition & symposium in Canterbury
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Otl Aicher’s design work for the 1972 Munich…
5 July 2012
Taught from a new angle
Oliver Byrne’s Elements of Euclid, 1847 – infodesign history in Eye 82
Euclid’s Elements has been the introductory text to geometry since it was compiled by the…