Eye Magazine

America’s women snowboarders are using the graphic language of boards to help claim their space in the sport

British men’s magazines rely for sales on female flesh. Harmless fun, “post-feminist” irony, or a desperate ploy to turn back the social clock?

Long out of print, Brian Eno’s ‘worthwhile dilemma’ cards have been reissued by Californian software guru Peter Norton

Mark Farrow’s minimalist graphics have won him a place in the profession’s mainstream usually denied to music designers

Quark's Immedia is not quite Director's equal but it gives Xpress users a multimedia tool that works in a familiar way

Born in Czechoslovakia, Ladislav Sutnar was a pioneer of information design. Working in America in the years after the war he synthesised European avant-gardisms into a functional commercial lexicon, made Constructivism playful and used its geometry to forge the dynamics of catalogue organisation. ‘The designer must think first, work later,’ Sutnar declared. His writings — in which the bracket was a favourite motif — are as timely today as his designs.

‘The ideal situation is where you sit with the client and design with them. If anything is emphasised, it’s what they want to emphasise. I prefer collaborative effort to doing what I want. It’s diametrically opposite to being an artist.’

Palestinian artists tell their people’s stories through symbols and allegory

The British New Wave was born at a boys’ school near Manchester