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Video to go

Michael Horsham

Video packaging is an area of graphics both marginal and ubiquitous. Who decides how it looks?
 

Prints of Islam

Rana Salam

In Syria and Beirut, craftsmen make inexpensive devotional images for the workplace and home
 

Stop making sense

Véronique Vienne

The best-loved children’s stories are for adults too. Five American illustrators push at the boundaries of the book.
 

Cult of the ugly

Steven Heller

Designers used to stand for beauty and order. Now beauty is passé and ugliness is smart. How did we get here and is there any way out?
 
Tokyo Salamander

Tokyo Salamander

Rick Poynor

Vaughan Oliver’s collaboration with Shinro Ohtake is an oblique diary of dreams
 

Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics.

Eye editors

For the first in a new series, Eye revisits Richard Hollis’s innovatory design for a book on the French film-maker
 

Rietveld’s children

Hughes Boekraad, Gerard Hadders

New work from graduates of Amsterdam’s famous academy.
 

In search of Barney Bubbles

Julia Thrift

He was a pioneer of British graphics, but he refused to sign his own work
 

Reputations: Neville Brody

Rick Poynor

‘People are using the computer in a very rigid, pseudo-religious way and we are trying to say that the technology is simply a tool of communication and should be treated as organically as any other tool.’
 

American Gothic

Rick Poynor

Barry Deck’s Template Gothic is vernacular in inspiration and futuristic in effect. Is it a bizarre one-off, or the shape of typefaces to come?