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22 June 2009
Eye 72 contents
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CRITIQUE
3 Bad timing
A Bond-themed magazine fails to incite ‘product lust’
by Rick Poynor
REPUTATIONS
14 Marian Bantjes
The Canadian designer talks about type, illustration, her mid-life crisis and ‘swirlies’
interview by John L. Walters, photograph by Andrew Querner
FEATURES
24 Sampling the Modern
GF Smith. Designs on paper by Bill Mackay and SEA
by Liz Farrelly
28 Body Type
Maxime Buechi’s Sang Bleu mixes tattoos with fetishism, philosophy and pop culture
by Keith Miller
ILLUSTRATION SPECIAL SECTION
32 The graphic designer as illustrator
Build, Dust, Alex Trochut, IWANT, Karlssonwilker, Universal Everything,
Airside and Grandpeople. Design that embraces the made image.
Plus an essay that puts this ‘new’ hybrid into critical perspective
Schism and reunification
by Adrian Shaughnessy
44 Artwork and play
Brian Knight’s lovingly detailed Airfix paintings of boats, planes and soldiers
by Robert Hanks
48 Storytelling giant
Profile of illustrator Christoph Niemann, from blogs to picture books
by Steven Heller
56 Fired up and hired
Will MTV continue to champion animators from around the globe?
by Liz Farrelly
60 Drawn into conversation
Big brands use illustration to say ‘honest’, ‘natural’ and ‘popular’
by Steve Hare
70 The orderly chaos of James Joyce
Monthly flyers propelled this former graphic designer into illustration
by John L. Walters
UNCOATED
82 Agenda: Cult of the squiggly
Over-abundant embellishment is spiralling out of control. Time to get out the shears,
cries Steven Heller
84 Reviews
including: Richard Hollis on Corporate Diversity, Christian Schwartz on Helvetica
Forever, Rick Poynor, David Crowley, Paul Shaw and Henrik Kubel on Subway Art
94 Education
Scrapbook from China, Algerian poster project and an alphabetical catwalk
96 Colophon
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