Feature: Design history
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
Lovable loser
A daring approach to sports journalism earned the short-lived Jock magazine a place in design history
Radical platform
From its early grassroots days, Spare Rib provided a groundbreaking public arena for women’s issues, opinions and feelings that had previously been sidelined
We Made This: Technical challenge
Sarah Snaith talks to Briar Levit, director of a new film on the history of graphic design