Feature
Depth of field
chezweitz & roseapple are the new scenographers, who persuade museum curators to take the integrated approach.
Getting better all the time…
Self-styled ‘graphic entertainer’ Alan Aldridge shot to fame in the mid-1960s with his work for The Sunday Times magazine, Penguin Books, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and The Who. Aldridge regards The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (see Eye no. 57 vol. 15) as an ‘illustration of the 1960s’, and you could say the same for much of his new book The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes (Thames & Hudson, £24.95), published to coincide with the Design Museum show of the same name. In this extract, Aldridge recounts his experiences after being fired from a job as a junior finished artist at Charlotte Studios – ‘supply your own steel rule and X-Acto knife’ – in a London that was just about to Swing.
Reputations: Phil Baines
‘I could never subscribe to a particular way of doing things – I was always more pick ’n’ mix. I’d want to take what was good and alter it a little, or, if I thought the ideology was stupid, drop the ideology.’
Excitable hexagonal
Do the covers to the D&AD’s annuals – full of pencils, food, and covered in tactile stuff – tell us anything about the past 45 years?
Prototype propagandist
Rivadulla’s revolutionary poster art avoids socialist cliché. By Jan Middendorp
Talking pictures (Isotype)
By representing data in simple graphic form, Isotype anticipated modern information design.
The digital essence
Lexicon, by Bram de Does, is a type designer’s type design, par excellence.
Every frame counts
Whatever the genre – or budget – each element of Kyle Cooper’s film titles is a painstakingly executed piece of design
Documents of the marvellous
The authentic spirit of Surrealism lives on – in projects based on curious collections that celebrate the strange and numinous
Cheap Jack Flash
Fluorescent inks – costly, dramatic, even ‘vulgar’ – provided 1950s designers with a fresh challenge