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21 November 2024
Books that rock! Book your ticket
Please don’t neglect to book for Books that rock!, our last Type Tuesday of 2024 on 26 November at St Bride Foundation. Jim K. Davies and Jamie Ellul will talk about their book Logo Rhythm and Lucinda Rogers will discuss New York Winter 1988 (sketches from her first time in that city) and her recent reportage illustrations covering the US elections for The Guardian. Book your tickets now! Tickets are £14.00, £12 (concessions) and £9 (students). Advance booking is recommended as all tickets are £16 on the door.
14 November 2024
Come to Type Tuesday on 26 November
We are excited to announce that our last Type Tuesday of 2024 will be Books that rock! on 26 November at St Bride Foundation. We are looking forward to talks from our speakers Jim K Davies and Jamie Ellul about their book Logo Rhythm and from Lucinda Rogers who will talk about New York Winter 1988 (sketches from her first time in that city) and her recent reportage illustrations covering the US elections for The Guardian. Book your tickets now!
23 October 2024
Out and about with the Eye team
Dear friends
The Eye team has been busy with Eye 107 while squeezing in various events around the globe, including a exhibition in Xi’an, China (more news later), a Pulp tenth anniversary event (last night) and ‘Magazine Street’, the International Magazine Centre’s one-day conference about mag publishing in Edinburgh last month, which featured art director Simon Esterson and art editor Holly Catford …
Spread from ‘Ten projects by Jim Sutherland’, Eye 101. Portrait by Philip Sayer.
23 September 2024
Dear friends
We’re busy at our Haggerston studio finalising the contents of Eye 107 …
Maquette for road signs designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, now archived at St Bride Printing Library.
Subscribe to Eye now to make sure you get a copy of Eye 107 delivered to your home or studio in a sturdy box. If you are already a subscriber please make sure your subscription is up to date (log in with your details here) and that we have your latest postal address. You’d be surprised how many people forget to tell us when they move their home or studio …
29 August 2024
Come to Type Tuesday: My (favourite) font
Dear friends
Tickets are selling fast for Type Tuesday: My (favourite) font, our next event, which will take place on 10 September at St Bride Foundation, London. Eye has asked eight designers to choose their favourite font and give a short talk explaining their choice.
Tickets: £9 (students), £12 (friends of St Bride and concessions), £14 (full price) available here. Save money by buying tickets in advance – door sales will be £16 including concessions. All ticket income supports the St Bride Foundation.
Speakers (from L-R top) Catherine Dixon, Erik Spiekermann, Greg Bunbury and Holly Catford; (from L-R bottom) Kuchar Swara, Melanie Mues, Sallie Morris and Violetta Boxill.
13 August 2024
Come to Type Tuesday on 10 September
Dear friends
We are excited to announce that Type Tuesday: My (favourite) font, our next event, will take place on 10 September at St Bride Foundation, London. Eye has asked a selection of designers to choose their favourite font and give a short talk explaining their choice. Tickets: £9 (students), £12 (friends of St Bride and concessions), £14 (full price) available here.
Above: speakers (L-R) Erik Spiekermann, Catherine Dixon, Kuchar Swara, Melanie Mues and Greg Bunbury. Plus more to be announced soon …
29 July 2024
We’ve had some great reactions to Eye 106 from subscribers, newsstands and social media, including our most popular Instagram post to date, with more than 1000 ‘likes’ for our three covers. You can buy a copy now from the Eye shop, or subscribe to Eye and get this issue – and the next three – delivered to your door.
Screenshot from the weekly roundup at Casa Magazines in New York City.
12 July 2024
This is the type special issue
Dear friends
Our latest issue, Eye 106 comes out today. It’s a type special with three different covers.
In case you don’t already subscribe, it’s now available to buy from the Eye shop.
16 June 2024
June newsletter: Eye 106 on press soon
Eye 106 is about to go to press. This type special features a stimulating mix of typography, type design, foundries, informed opinion, design history, reviews and a Reputations interview with Sharp Type (below). Some of you saw John and Simon preview a few examples of the contents at Type Tuesday on 4 June. Don’t forget to renew your subscription (if you need to) so you don’t miss Eye 106.
30 May 2024
Please don’t forget to book for our next Type Tuesday on June 4 at St Bride in London, which features Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil. Hamish and Paul will be talking about their latest book System Process Form …
26 April 2024
14 March 2024
Dear friends
Thank you to everyone who came to ‘We love books’, our first Type Tuesday of 2024 on 5 March at St Bride Library. We had a packed house at St Bride Hall to hear Luca Pitoni and Astrid Stavro talk about their love for book design.
Astrid Stavro at the St Bride lectern for the March Type Tuesday, ‘We love books’, showing some of Derek Birdsall’s book cover designs for Penguin.
Anita Klinz in her studio at Mondadori with (left to right) designers Ferruccio Bocca and Bruno Binosi, and press office head Guido Lopez.
The next issue of Eye, no. 106 vol. 27, features a Reputations interview with Chantra Malee and Lucas Sharp, the dynamic couple behind Sharp Type. There are type reviews from Indra Kupferschmid, Silvia Sfligiotti, Dan Reynolds and Mark Thomson, a feature about global type by Ferdinand Ulrich and we look back at London’s Type Archive, which finally closed its doors in 2023. There will be reviews by Paul Kahn, Gabriela Matuszyk, Mark Sinclair, Gerry Leonidas, Isobel Duarte and others, plus Rick Poynor’s Critique. And if Luca Pitoni’s Type Tuesday talk about Anita Klinz piqued your interest, you can read more about her life and work in Eye 106.
20 February 2024
‘We love books’, the first Type Tuesday of 2024, will be on 5 March at St Bride Library. We’ll be joined in person by two Italian-born designers – Luca Pitoni and Astrid Stavro – talking about the late Anita Klinz (below) …
24 January 2024
Eye 105 is out (and about) now
Dear friends
Happy New Year to all our newsletter subscribers – especially those of you who also subscribe to the magazine. The latest issue – Eye no. 105 vol. 27 – is now available at local newsagents and independent bookstores in the UK and Europe and has been making its way around the rest of the world, as we can see from the many social media posts from happy readers (see below).
14 December 2023
The latest Eye – no. 105 vol. 27 – is now available at local newsagents and independent bookstores in the UK and Europe and is currently going out to North America and the rest of the world. If you are not already reading Eye regularly, please consider buying a subscription. You can also buy single copies of the latest issue and / or classic back issues from the Eye shop. |
AI-generated fish picture from ‘Artificial Idiot’, a feature by Marian Bantjes in Eye 105. |
25 November 2023
Roll up, roll up … book for Type Tuesday
Dear friends
Please don’t forget to book your tickets to Type Tuesday: All the fonts of the fair on November 28 with Joby Carter. As usual, it will be held at St Bride Printing Library in London and ticket sales (from £8.50 to £13) support the St Bride Foundation. Click here to buy yours. …
17 November 2023
The latest Eye – issue 105 – has now been printed and will be mailed to subscribers next week. If you haven’t yet renewed or started your subscription, please click here.
8 November 2023
We are excited to announce that Joby Carter, signwriter, fairground artist and owner of Carters Steam Fair, will be the speaker at our next Type Tuesday on 28 November …
20 October 2023
Book your tickets for Type Tuesday!
There's still time to book for our special Type Tuesday to hear all about Rick Poynor’s new book Why Graphic Culture Matters …
11 October 2023
There are lots of exciting events coming up this Autumn. Not only our special Type Tuesday but a new issue of Eye (105) …
13 September 2023
Thank you to everyone who came to our last Type Tuesday on 5 September for an anecdote-packed chat with Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell and a comprehensively illustrated talk about the Album Cover Album series by Christopher Wilson …
22 August 2023
Book for Type Tuesday: Sound and vision
This is to let you know about our next Type Tuesday, from 7 to 9:30pm on 5 September at St Bride Library, with Christopher Wilson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell. If you can get to London that evening, please book your tickets via Billetto and support the St Bride Foundation.
5 June 2023
We are looking forward to seeing many of you at tomorrow’s Type Tuesday, ‘Cover to cover’. Tickets are selling really well, so if you would like to come (and you are within striking distance of St Bride Library) we seriously recommend you book your tickets now before they sell out …
31 May 2023
Book for Type Tuesday: Cover to cover
Please come to our next Type Tuesday, from 7 to 9:30pm on 6 June at St Bride Library. 'Cover to Cover' will be all about books and we have some terrific speakers for you …
3 May 2023
Eye 104 has been printed, with a Peter Knapp interview, motion graphics, Matrix, Telegraf (Ukraine) and Christopher Wilson on the Album Cover Albums …
11 April 2023
Eye 104 is about to go to press (subscribe here), with articles about motion graphics, music design, Ukrainian magazine Telegraf, John Randle’s Matrix and much more.
18 February 2023
Great news – Sara De Bondt will be our speaker for the first Type Tuesday of 2023.
In a talk entitled ‘On and off the grid’, she will speak about her experiences in designing, editing, writing, publishing and distributing books today. The whole evening will be devoted to publishing and research as part of design practice, a subject close to our own hearts.
13 December 2022
Our warmest thanks go out to all of you who attended Type Tuesday last week at St Bride Library in London, and an especially big thank-you to our three speakers: Jim Sutherland, Jahnavi Innis and Richard Ardagh, each of whom delivered fascinating presentations under the theme ‘Stories worth telling’.
25 November 2022
The next Type Tuesday, our last of the year, has the title ‘Stories worth telling’ and it’s going to be terrific …
23 August 2022
How green is graphic design?
Our next Type Tuesday, ‘How green is graphic design?’ features Pureprint’s Richard Owers, Fedrigoni’s Annette Clayton and Eye art director Simon Esterson.
5 August 2022
We have been very heartened by the positive responses to our current issue and to our most recent Type Tuesday …
22 June 2022
Book now for Book night! Type Tuesday, 28 June 2022
We will have piles of the freshly printed Eye 103 to buy at the Eye stall at St Bride next Tuesday. Plus selected bargain back issues …
7 June 2022
Eye 103 has now been bound and boxed ready for dispatch to subscribers later this week …
26 May 2022
Subscribe to Eye in time for 103
As I write this, my colleague Simon Esterson is on press with the next issue of Eye magazine, packed full of great stories from the worlds of graphic design and visual culture …
17 May 2022
Subscribe to Eye and get something Extra
To celebrate the upcoming issue, Eye 103, we have just produced a little limited-edition publication we call Richard Turley: Eye Extra 01. This is an expanded version of the interview with Richard that first appeared in Eye 100, the ‘Talking about graphic design’ special issue, which came out during the pandemic and has now sold out.
2 April 2022
| Catching up with Eye magazine |
After some problems with our old web hosting, we have finally been able to update the Eye website to include the last issue, Eye 102. Which is cause for a certain amount of celebration here in the Haggerston Riviera.
23 February 2022
Book your tickets for ‘Activists in Ink’, Type Tuesday
Please join us for our upcoming evening ‘Activists in Ink’, from 7-9.30pm on 8 March at St Bride Library in London. This will be our first in-person Type Tuesday since March 2020, and we’ll be joined by three special guests: reportage illustrator Lucinda Rogers; graphic designer Greg Bunbury; and poet, activist and letterpress artist Dennis Gould. Tickets cost £12.50, £10 members/concessions, £8 students, in support of the St Bride Foundation.
8 February 2022
Eye newsletter, early February
Greetings to all our newsletter readers. We’ve enjoyed paging through some back issues recently, and it has been nice to be reminded of some interesting articles from the past three decades …
15 January 2022
A very happy new year to all our friends and readers. We’re looking forward to a productive and eventful (in a good way) 2022, with lots of great articles and reviews in preparation for Eye 103 and beyond …
13 December 2021
Subscribers’ copies of Eye 102 have been mailed out, and we understand it reached independent magazine shops in the UK a few days ago. Some of you have even made Instagram stories to celebrate the new issue, which you can see in our highlights page.
3 December 2021
Eye 102 is on its way at last. Subscribers’ copies will be mailed out next week, and it should be in your favourite independent magazine shop a short while afterwards …
21 October 2021
Another month, another newsletter, with a few links we hope you’ll enjoy reading while you all wait patiently for the launch of Eye 102, our forthcoming type special.
24 September 2021
Greetings from the Eye studio, where we’re sorting out loose ends to do with crucial matters of sales and distribution – we are again able to take orders from the EU …
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17 September 2021
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9 September 2021
Buy your tickets for ‘Eye on type’
Our next Type Tuesday, Eye on type, will take place at 6:30pm (BST) on 14 September 2021, with some great designers who will be featured in the forthcoming Type special issue (Eye 102 volume 26). Our guests are November (Shiva Nallaperumal and Juhi Vishnani) from Mumbai, Laura Meseguer from Barcelona and Thomas Huot-Marchand from Nancy. Tickets cost £5/£3.
28 August 2021
Save the date! Type Tuesday, 14 September
The next Type Tuesday is at 6:30pm on 14 September 2021, with several designers who will be featured in the next Type special issue of Eye: November (Mumbai), Laura Meseguer (Barcelona) and Thomas Huot-Marchand (Nancy). Please save the date and look out for further newsletters …
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