Feature: Design history
Mark Holt: Games, set and dispatch
The title page credit for Munich ’72: The Visual Output of Otl Aicher’s Dept XI reads ‘Researched, written, edited, designed and published by Mark Holt.’ Interview by John L. Walters
My friend David King
The book David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is a comprehensive account of the work of a unique figure in graphic design history. Here Richard Hollis, witness to King’s development as designer, artist, collector and pioneering author-designer of dazzling books of social and political history, recalls his friend and fellow designer. By Richard Hollis
Jacqueline Casey. Science and design
Jacqueline Casey was instrumental in developing what became known as the MIT Style. By Elizabeth Resnick
Eye’s early years
Founding editor Rick Poynor recalls the aims and ideas behind the launch of an independent design magazine
Letterform Archive: Objects of Inspiration
Letterform Archive is feeding the post-digital generation’s passion for physical artefacts
Elaine Ramos: The book designer
‘We overdose on communication, but “beautiful” design circulates only between the culturally literate.’
They made Canada
Working against the clock, with virtually no budget, Greg Durrell made a design documentary that shows how European immigrants created Canada’s visual identity
Pay it forward
Rubén Fontana devised a system for teaching typography that is grounded in Argentina’s culture and politics
Two cheers for publishing
A two-volume book packed with graphic design history is a visual blockbuster, but does little for scholarship. By Rick Poynor
This woman’s work
Kate Hepburn’s design career, embracing pioneering magazines such as Spare Rib and Vole as well as comedy and rock’n’roll, is rooted in rigorous typography