Wednesday, 8:19am
30 May 2012
Noted #37
Book design
Design education
Design history
Graphic design
New media
Technology
Typography
Visual culture
Brilliant (Four) Corners, St Jude’s in the City, GTF and Andy Cameron
More links and mentions for items recommended by friends and contacts of the Eye team.
A mini cityscape, made of old type: davidbsmithgallery.com/work/detail/type-city (thanks to Marianne Waller).
A moving tribute to design pioneer Andy Cameron (below), who died on Monday 28 June, by Creative Review editor Patrick Burgoyne.
Read Andy’s ‘The medium is messy’ in Eye 30; and ‘Ink and paper – holding up’ on the Eye blog.
An ingenious site from Four Corners Books, in which you can sort books by name, date, colour, size, weight, front & back cover and spine. Programmed by Studio Scasascia and designed by John Morgan Studio (see Eye 83 next month).
Graphic Thought Facility have a splendid new site. See interview in Eye 39.
Ian Gabb, aka the Letterpress Monster (thanks to Chloë King).
St Jude’s in the City, which continues until Friday 1 June 2012, includes new work by Mark Hearld (below) and Angie Lewin (top).
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 and single issues. Eye 82 is still available, and you can browse a visual sampler at Eye before you buy on Issuu.