Eye Magazine

Opinion: Visual culture

Occupation hazardous

Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

For ‘place hackers’, subversive and daredevil urban explorers, photography validates a search for the sublime. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Identity crisis

Brand madness, Visual culture

Rebranding ITV was meant to generate a warm glow – not the heated reaction it received from viewers. Critique by Rick Poynor

The woman who took on the Wolf Man

Book design, Illustration, Visual culture

Sława Harasymowicz’s first foray into graphic novels illuminates a Freudian case history with thrilling clarity. Critique by Rick Poynor

Regeneration X

Book design, Illustration, Reviews, Visual culture

Laura Oldfield Ford’s grainy Savage Messiah brings new urgency to an updated punk aesthetic. Critique by Rick Poynor

Scarcity and silence: Amc2 Journal

Graphic design, Magazines, Visual culture

An image-led journal marries the serendipitous collisions of image-sharing sites with the physicality of print. Critique by Rick Poynor

A soul drifting in neon limbo

Typography, Visual culture

The stroboscopic credits of Noé’s movie suck the viewer into an immersive maelstrom of lettering. Critique by Rick Poynor

A persuasive chancer

Graphic design, Magazines, Visual culture

On the basis of its first issue The Happy Hypocrite is small, quietly experimental and just a bit passive aggressive. Critique by Rick Poynor

Inspiration: Pioneer 10 plaque (1972)

Design history, Illustration, Information design, Technology, Visual culture

Billions of miles from Earth and still travelling, this etched metal plaque is the furthest piece of design from our planet. Appreciated by Gary Benzel and Todd St. John of HunterGatherer

Postcards from the edge

Graphic design, Visual culture

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

Inflated intangibles