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…

13 June 2012

Charts change minds

Charts change minds

anne-marie conway

Description of the slave ship Brookes, 1788 – infodesign history in Eye 82
Eighteenth-century abolitionists used every propaganda tool in the book, but one of their most widely circulated…

12 June 2012

Sonorama panorama

Sonorama panorama

john l. walters

A French magazine that put a new light (and spin) on musical multimedia
This June issue of French magazine Sonorama includes reports from the Cannes film festival, writes…
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