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Video to go
Video packaging is an area of graphics both marginal and ubiquitous. Who decides how it looks?
Prints of Islam
In Syria and Beirut, craftsmen make inexpensive devotional images for the workplace and home
Stop making sense
The best-loved children’s stories are for adults too. Five American illustrators push at the boundaries of the book.
Cult of the ugly
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
Vaughan Oliver’s collaboration with Shinro Ohtake is an oblique diary of dreams
Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics.
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
He was a pioneer of British graphics, but he refused to sign his own work
Reputations: Neville Brody
‘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
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?