Eye Magazine

20 July 2012
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Information design, Posters, Visual culture

The international challenges of communicating AIDS awareness

Contemporary consumer society has particular features that present communication challenges for the social service sector…

14 June 2011
Graphic design, Illustration, Posters, Visual culture

Billboard strategies in cross-cultural social service advertising campaigns

Social service and government advertising has been used in industrialised countries for most of the…

27 August 2010
Magazines, Technology, Visual culture

Are Asian skin-lightening creams being whitewashed for the west?

In the recent era of globalisation of business, the cosmetic and personal product manufacturers are…

24 March 2010
Graphic design, Photography, Visual culture

Greenwashing and design in the age of ethical consumption

In the contemporary era of heightened green awareness and ‘ethical consumption’, major companies have quickly…

10 November 2009
Photography, Posters, Visual culture

Lynn Ciochetto on the creation of new needs and markets

Much advertising in the past has been about creating new needs and taboos that can be…

13 August 2009
Graphic design, Illustration, Typography, Visual culture

Toilet signage as an international cultural artefact

Toilet signage is such a deeply embedded part of contemporary life, writes Lynne Ciochetto, that…

Lynne Ciochetto