Feature
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]
Heavy rotation
From 1977-92, the Album Cover Albums presented a broad spectrum of record sleeve art, unintentionally raising questions about the way graphic design for popular culture is experienced, interpreted and preserved. By Christopher Wilson [EXTRACT]
Form and feeling
Rudolph de Harak gets the recognition he deserves in a new monograph by Richard Poulin [EXTRACT]
Philadelphia freedom
Pentagram’s Luke Hayman has given The Philadelphia Inquirer an overhaul. By Steven Heller [EXTRACT]
John Randle and his 26 soldiers of lead
As Matrix comes to a full stop, its doughty founder talks to Eye. Photographs by Philip Sayer
Jump cuts
Motion design is everywhere. The gleaming screens of our phones, TVs and poster sites demand more and more ways to make words and pictures dance in space and time. By John L. Walters
Jump cuts: Dirk Koy
‘It was a kind of experiment between control and coincidence, which is still an important part [of] the process in my work today’
Jump cuts: Mitch Paone
‘It’s not a poster, you’re in a 360-degree universe you can play with. You’ve got to get out of the frame!’
Jump cuts: Saskia Marka
‘It looks now like it was always the concept, but it was created from a necessity.’ [EXTRACT]