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Reputations: Pierre Bernard
‘I don’t believe in revolutionary design, but I do believe that reactionary designs exist. It’s always easier to perpetuate the same forms and contents rather than to search out new ones.’
Why Grapus had to disband. Eye talks to founder Pierre Bernard
The designer unmasked
Jan van Toorn has turned graphic agitation into a fine art. Profile by Gerald Forde
Signals in the street
Poster design is an instantaneous art. Eye looks at prize-winners from “Typography Germany ’90”
Temple of type
St Bride Library is one of the world’s best sources of information about type design and typography. Now it is under threat
Maps and dreams
No printing method is too basic for Jake Tilson. Created with photocopiers, his books, magazines and objects are crammed with offbeat invention.
TV in the age of eye candy
People used to say the ads were the best thing on British TV. Now it’s the graphics which are overwhelming the programmes.
Cool, clear, collected
Blue Note designer Reid Miles and photographer Francis Wolff were a classic combo. Their covers have been envied, imitated, but rarely equalled.