Ian Swift

Recent articles about Ian Swift

We Made This: Technical challenge

Issue 95, Winter 2017

Feature

Sarah Snaith talks to Briar Levit, director of a new film on the history of graphic design

A life in grafix

Issue 94, Summer 2017

Review

Here’s a fantastic, heavy, extraordinary 374-page book whose ten chapters chart the designer Ian ‘Swifty’…

Beyond typography

Issue 15, Winter 1994

Feature

Fuse’s talented team is on an inspired quest to ‘Make it new!’ But what is the project really about?

Mo’Wax

Issue 33, Autumn 1999

Feature

The urban swagger of this small label’s music is mirrored by its freewheeling ‘house style’. By Adrian Shaughnessy

Go-faster graphics

Issue 16, Spring 1995

Feature

Radical young designers changed the face of British design in the 1980s. A decade later, their inventions have been softened into easily identifiable styles endlessly recycled by the commercial mainstream

Club-runner graphics

Issue 5, Winter 1991

Review

In the mid to late 1980s we would be out every night at some club…

Recent blog posts about Ian Swift

Noted #83

20 September 2017
Graphic design, Illustration, New media, Typography, Visual culture

Sea Prayer, Poster House, Pit, Straight No Chaser and National 2
Here are a few things – VR journalism, Poster House, new issues of Pit and…

Classic Collections – Back to the 90s

11 February 2016
Design history, Graphic design, New media, Technology, Typography, Visual culture

Surf back down the information superhighway to a time when the World Wide Web was thrillingly new – with Eye nos. 14, 16, 23 & 25
Most early editions of Eye magazine are out of print. However a handful from the…