Opinion: Graphic design

 
Inspiration

Inspiration

Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Inspiration

Designer Simon Esterson finds inspiration in Ken Briggs’s National Theatre programmes from the 1960s
 
Postcards from the edge

Postcards from the edge

Graphic design, Visual culture

The ‘unpatriotic’ Sphere caught US designers at the worst moment. Critique by Rick Poynor
 

Why bother? Ask the Dutch

Graphic design, Agenda

When issues of quality, responsibility and professionalism are debated, the emerging graphic design organisations of Ireland should look to the example of the Dutch BNO
 

Inflated intangibles

Graphic design, Visual culture

The self-contratulatory message of a show about UK creativity was little more than electronic ticker tape…
 

What did you do in the design studio today, daddy?

Design education, Graphic design, Visual culture, Agenda

Graphic designers are convinced of the profession’s importance. Now they have to convince everyone else
 

Mysterious absence at the cutting edge

Critical path, Design education, Graphic design

Britain has many design stars and most of them are men. Yet very few young women want to be seen as feminists. That’s starting to change
 

Design is a ghetto

Graphic design, Letter to the editor

Letter from Ian Goodyer in Eye 15
 

Editorial Eye 15

Graphic design, Technology, Typography, Editorial

In the three and a half years since Fuse, the interactive type magazine, was started…
 

Editorial Eye 14

Graphic design, Editorial

Graphic design is so deeply inscribed within the fabric of everyday life that it is…
 

The (layered) vision thing

Design education, Graphic design

If it has dotted lines, an arrow or two and it’s impossible to read, then it must be ‘postmodern’. Are we using the theory the way it was intended?
 
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