Opinion
Kiki in graphic detail
Catel’s quick-fire sketches illustrate the life of the young model who became a Surrealist icon and Man Ray’s muse. Critique by Rick Poynor
French connections
Slender and serious, Back Cover is emerging as a Gallic platform for a resolutely non-American view of design
A soul drifting in neon limbo
The stroboscopic credits of Noé’s movie suck the viewer into an immersive maelstrom of lettering. Critique by Rick Poynor
Editorial Eye 78
Information design, the main focus of this issue of Eye, has given rise to some soul-searching…
Contents
Eye 78 Winter 2010Features 8 Critique: A soul adrift in neon limbo The credits of Gaspar…
Understand, visualise, survive
Max Gadney argues that information design should be a compulsory part of every graphic design course
Expression of faith
Give the revered Irma Boom her head and what do you get? A catalogue like a truncated brick
Editorial Eye 77
Photography and the joy of publishing in Eye 77.
California panorama
Emigre’s latest type catalogue uses historical sources to display wildly varied fonts with rollicking gusto. Critique by Rick Poynor
Survivor
Graphic designer Romek Marber bears witness to one of the great crimes of the past century. Critique by Rick Poynor