3 July 2012

Type Tuesday: Reputations

Type Tuesday: Reputations

John L. Walters, Simon Esterson

Commercial Type’s Christian Schwartz & Paul Barnes – interviewed in Eye 82
‘There has been typography on the Web for its entire existence, because there are words…

2 July 2012

The art of illumination

The art of illumination

Robert Fripp

Will Burtin, the man who invented infodesign, 1940s – from Eye 82
Born in 1908 in a working-class district of Cologne, nothing about Will Burtin’s childhood suggested…

29 June 2012

Graphic and grotesque

Graphic and grotesque

Rick Poynor

Hidden Treasure shows the human body in all its pathos and horror.
Hidden Treasure is a deceptively innocuous title for a book devoted to pictures of skin…

27 June 2012

Untitled tiles

Untitled tiles

Sarah Snaith

There’s a pattern to Rob Lowe’s ‘Details’ exhibition at Kemistry Gallery
Rob Lowe has covered the walls of London’s tiny Kemistry Gallery with an array of…

25 June 2012

Let’s hear it for the hinting slaves

Let’s hear it for the hinting slaves

liz farrelly

Type Tuesday: Ampersand Web Typography Conference 2012
When keynote speaker Phil Baines asked a full house at the second Ampersand Web Typography Conference…

25 June 2012

Lady with the diagram

Lady with the diagram

anne-marie conway

Florence Nightingale on Crimean War mortality, 1858 – infodesign in Eye 82
The vision of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’, doing ward rounds in…

21 June 2012

Music, flesh and fantasy

Music, flesh and fantasy

John L. Walters

When Mati Klarwein’s hyperactive paintings stole the psychedelic show.
Mati Klarwein is best known for a handful of album covers in the very early…

19 June 2012

Type Tuesday: Forward to page 1

Type Tuesday: Forward to page 1

caroline roberts

Managing (Great) expectations with a mix of ‘Pecha Kucha and speed dating’
A thought-provoking evening at the Design Museum marked the launch of Page 1: Great Expectations, the…

18 June 2012

A circle that moved the earth

A circle that moved the earth

alexander ecob

Copernicus’s diagram of the planets, 1543 – infodesign history in Eye 82
With the spread of print and Protestantism dethroning old sources of certainty, sixteenth-century Germany was ripe…

14 June 2012

Noted #38

Noted #38

noted

Details, webfonts, operatic Len Lye, torn posters and Olympic variations
Here are some links to things that have caught the attention of the Eye team…
 
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