Issue 41

Opinion

Vanishing point
Vanishing point
Rick Poynor
A slender idea is inflated to attention-grabbing proportions. Critique by Rick Poynor
Inspiration
Stefan Sagmeister
Imitation subway notices by True
Editorial Eye 41
John L. Walters
Eye’s second redesign in its ten-year history

Features

Health warnings
Marcus Ainley
Survival
Survival
Chris Morrow
A slave ship diagram is used as a symbol for the Black diaspora
Honour thy error
Anna Gerber
Can happy accidents save us from crude perfectionism?
Squaring the circle
Jessica Helfand
Paper wheel charts suggest a new way to display complex information
Designing demons
Steven Heller
The rhetoric of hate provides ‘a new kind of meaning’
Same name, different face
Martin Dawson
Can classic, remastered fonts retain the spirit of the ‘authentic’ original?
On message!
Michael Worthington
Mass-market graphic activism with a contemporary relevance.
Reputations: Neville Garrick
Chris Morrow
‘I won’t compromise my concept. If entertainment doesn’t contain information, then I don’t want anything to do with it.’

Reviews

Stefan Sagmeister, Made You Look
Graphic Design Time-Line: A Century of Design Milestones
Stabbed in the Front: Post-war General Elections through Political Cartoons
Mental
Fatal Coincidences: The Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Graphic Design & Reading: Explorations of an Uneasy Relationship
Odds and Ends: A Chronologically Ordered Collection of Rare Works
The Art of Looking Sideways
Clean New World
Outsider Insider Design of a Lifetime: Ben Bos
Nasty Tales: Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll and Violence in the British Underground
Minus Equals Plus
Dennis Hopper: A Keen Eye
Looking Closer: AIGA Conference on Design History and Criticism
Zero! Hans Schleger: A Life of Design
The Bus: The Free Photographic Omnibus 1973-2001
SuperHumanism
01.2 Manger/Eat
3D>2D