Feature
Anita Klinz: The first Italian art director
Over two crucial decades at Mondadori, designer Anita
Klinz transformed the look of Italian book publishing. Luca Pitoni tells her
story
Reputations: Sharp Type, Chantra Malee and Lucas Sharp
John L. Walters, Simon Esterson, Eye editors
Lucas Sharp: ‘The
only thing keeping me excited about being in this industry, and doing this
work, is the stuff I have yet to draw.’
Chantra
Malee: ‘We could have
sold the entire foundry but ... what are we
supposed to do for the rest of our lives?’
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The quiet confidence of Tomoko Miho
The influence of three continents underpins the meticulous work of this underrated Japanese-American graphic designer. By Elizabeth Resnick [EXTRACT]
The creative anarchist
Printer, poet, designer and publisher Dennis Gould interweaves the personal with the political in his clamorous, intuitive letterpress work. By Rick Poynor. [EXTRACT]
The power of physical books
Sonya Dyakova has a way with words, ideas, space and type. By Mark Sinclair [EXTRACT]
Artificial idiot: Puzzling answers to nonexistent questions
Jonathan Hoefler experiments with AI to create what he calls ‘Apocryphal Inventions’. By Marian Bantjes / Eye Editors
Artificial idiot: Deep fake, pink fake
Pum Lefebure’s Design Army made AI ‘space tourism’ landscapes for an adventurous client. By Marian Bantjes / Eye Editors
Artificial idiot: Pegasi, people and golden warriors
Marian Bantjes makes collages using multiple AI images
Artificial idiot
Unpredictable, cliché’d, wonderful, neither artificial nor intelligent– is AI the dumbest new kid on the block or the future of illustration? Marian Bantjes explores the weird world of text-to-image generators
Reputations: Brian Collins
‘The way I see it, problem-seeking is the yin to the yang of problem-solving. Solving is narrow and practical. Seeking is expansive and brimming with possibility. Solving asks “What’s wrong?” and then tries to fix it. Seeking asks “What if?” and then shows how.’ Interview by Louise Sandhaus [EXTRACT]