Feature

 

Self-evident, self-motivated, self-perpetuating

John O'Reilly, John L. Walters

Creative work by Experimental Jetset, Mother, Struktur and others
 
Naked words

Naked words

Jason Godfrey

Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the shelves – have always had a place in publication design.
 
Berlin

Berlin

Jan Middendorp

It’s a state of mind, a club scene, and one of the great political, cultural and historical events of the past twenty years. Of the century. And it is full of designers – with plenty to say. For this special issue, Eye visits Berlin to explore the graphic output of this sprawling, labyrinthine and endlessly fascinating city
 
Up close and tight

Up close and tight

Laura Forde

The legendary Herb Lubalin brought humour, sensuality and a contemporary flourish to complex typographic arrangements.
 

Alfredo Trivino

Alfredo Trivino

‘The tools make it harder for true innovation to emerge’
 

Mark Thomson

Mark Thomson

‘The variations of nuance and voice are endless’
 

Sean Adams

Sean Adams

‘Capricorn speaks to where we are as a culture’
 

Khoi Vinh

Khoi Vinh

‘The Web is a lost opportunity’
 

William Hall

William Hall

‘Over-friendly toasted-cheese fonts are dead’
 

Peter Bil’ak

Peter Bil'ak

‘The majority are guided by historical understanding’