Feature

 

Kex

Eye editors

Eduardo Paolozzi’s collage ‘novel’ Kex, made in 1966, has renewed resonance in the 1990s
 

Bards of the balance sheet

Will Novosedlik

How corporate designers turn routine annual reports into epic narratives of business triumph
 

Reputations: Katherine McCoy

Rick Poynor

After Cranbrook: Katherine McCoy on the way ahead
 
Lucille Tenazas: Layers of language

Lucille Tenazas: Layers of language

Teal Triggs

The work of San Francisco designer Lucille Tenazas lies somewhere between the rigour of design and the freedom of art. Tenazas believes it is possible to solve the client’s communication problems, while also addressing her own
 

Designing demons

Steven Heller

The rhetoric of hate provides ‘a new kind of meaning’
 

Reputations: Graphic Thought Facility

John L. Walters, Nick Bell

‘It’s to do with keeping things simple and having the confidence to present an idea where everything can be understood. You don’t have to be in the know to unravel it.’
 

The designer as alchemist

Mazier Raein, James Souttar

This seventeenth-century book is a layered fugue for chemistry, music, words and pictures: rich inspiration for anybody wanting their multimedia creations to deliver genuine, all-round entertainment
 

Putting type in its place

Liz Farrelly

For many of London’s editorial designers, type plays a supporting role. Content and narrative is as likely to be found in the images as in the words
 

Live die eat cheat

Matthew Shadbolt

Behind the screen is a world where bullets and bodies defy mortality and gravity. A visual history of computer games from kindergarten to carnage