Feature
They work with words
Fraser Muggeridge, Modern Toss and OK-RM have devised a series of typographic spreads exclusively for Eye. More information here.
Through thick and thin: fashion and type
Fashion’s obsessions are mirrored in its typography, from Vogue’s femme serifs to butch Chanel and the hybrid YSL logo
Nameless thing
Tokyo’s TDC rewards work that transcends means, intention, content, context – and just ‘is’
Trust in Modernism
The John Lewis Partnership’s co-operative ethos has informed 50 years of corporate identity.
Tools of the trade
David Barringer on the one sure thing he has grasped in two decades of graphic design life
Beyond Blackletter
The lettering on the covers of Germany’s most popular film magazine expressed plot and tone with exuberant, readable forms.
Reputations: Paula Scher
‘I am fascinated by organisations and the way people behave in power structures.’
Football, politics and the mafia
The walls of Naples are a canvas for the crimes, passions and contradictions of the city’s inhabitants
Before and after East met West
Much of a city’s history is written in its street signs. Berlin-born Verena Gerlach has turned their shapes and stories into typefaces