Eye Magazine

Here are some links to sites, images and texts that have caught the attention of the Eye team over the past week or so.

Beautified Words – Rob Walker on surrogate love letters in Design Observer.

(See also ‘Out of hand’, David Crowley’s article about handwriting in Eye 80.)

Adrian Curry selects his favourite ‘movie posters’ of 2011 on Mubi.com, with work by Chris Ware, Michael Gillette (below) and Brian Oakes.

Sonic Notify, in use at Made Fashion Week and on the road with Lady Gaga.

Illustrator Malika Favre traces the process of her Kama Sutra book cover project for Penguin on the Volcom blog.

Social Media Explained with donuts via Brain Pickings.

Eye is the world’s most beautiful and collectable graphic design journal, published quarterly for professional designers, students and anyone interested in critical, informed writing about graphic design and visual culture. It’s available from all good design bookshops and online at the Eye shop, where you can buy subscriptions, back issues and single copies of the latest issue. Eye 81, has the theme of ‘Designers and clients’; Eye 82 will be on press next week.