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Louise Fili

Recent articles about Louise Fili

Subterranean looks back

Issue 104, Spring 2023

Between the humour, history and typography, this memoir is a lot of fun, and a useful document of time, place and person.

‘Most restaurants are not used to dealing with designers, so I ask lots of questions. It’s being able to talk about colour, texture or architectural details. All I need is one element to latch on to that can make the logo work.’

The stuff they like

Issue 43, Spring 2002

Review

The Fall 2000 issue of The Ganzfeld was a 152-page pocket book; the latest is…

Love letters

Issue 80, Summer 2011

Review

Scripts, with a jazz-like mix of virtuosity and improvisation, can represent many things, from intimacy…

Recent blog posts about Louise Fili

Books received #31

15 January 2018
Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Photography, Reviews, Visual culture

Fili in Barcelona, the colours of Pawson, Bierut’s essays, dissent and the Resistance, and Alice Hawkins’ highly personal adventures

Here is yet another selection of books that caught our attention in recent weeks and…

Talented talent-spotter

17 January 2017
Book design, Graphic design, Magazines, Posters, Typography

Unit Editions’ second book about Herb Lubalin zeroes in on his ‘expressive typography’ and his gifted collaborators

Unit Editions’ Herb Lubalin: Typographer is a slimmer, more compact volume than the publisher’s popular…

Books received #10

1 October 2014
Book design, Brand madness, Food design, Graphic design, Illustration, Photography, Reviews, Typography

Make Your Own Luck, Grafica Della Strada, classic Volkswagen ads, Kazimir Malevich, Ark and Ends Meet, Essays on Exchange

Here are a few books that have come into Eye’s Shoreditch office that caught our…

In your face

12 August 2013
Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Reviews, Typography

Right now, 3D cinema is enjoying a second flush of activity, with immersive, fantastical movies…

Offset 2013: day two

12 April 2013
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Reviews, Visual culture

Gag-happy Vaughan Oliver recalls ‘holding a comma on the end of my scalpel.’ Pam Bowman continues her coverage of the Dublin conference.

Saturday began with Irish Children’s Laureate Niamh Sharkey, writes Pam Bowman, in the second of…

Offset 2013: day one

9 April 2013
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Reviews

Bob Gill, Louise Fili and Ben Bos explain why design is ‘not a profession but a way of life.’ Pam Bowman reports from the Dublin conference.

Starting at 10am on Friday 5 April and finishing at 7pm the following Sunday, Offset…