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Displays of powerIssue 109, Winter 2026
Review

                                                In the past two decades, information visualisation has become a key tool in the architectural…                        
Shall I share my screen?Issue 109, Winter 2026
Review

                                                David Reinfurt’s A *New* Program for Graphic Design had a novel origin: his entire graphic…                        
Dingbats in the basementIssue 109, Winter 2026
Review

                                                This exhibition was perfect for children, a perfect primer. They can make their own icons…                        
Editorial Eye 109Issue 109, Winter 2026
Opinion

                                            We are all subject to the dominant technologies of our age, consciously or otherwise.            
Voice at the tableIssue 109, Winter 2026
Opinion

                                            Will we one day view junk food ads the way we look back on
tobacco advertising? Nigel Ball challenges designers to query the relationship
between branding and UPF (ultra-processed food)            
From exotic wonderland to self-determinationIssue 55, Spring 2005
Review

                                                Leaving through this compendium of 900 posters, many produced in Africa but some in Europe, I…                        
Decorated sheds at the urban crossroadsIssue 55, Spring 2005
Review

                                                In 1972, postmodern architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi proclaimed they were ‘learning from Las…                        
Prints of Persia: Islamic World PostersIssue 55, Spring 2005
Review
Organised by the Iranian Academy of Art in association with the Saba Artistic and Cultural Center, this new event provided an opportunity to see artists not only from Iran, but also from Syria, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, the Sudan and elsewhere, whose work is rarely shown at poster biennials.
Deadpan Dutch designIssue 55, Spring 2005
Review
Dutch design, say the authors, is not something confined to The Netherlands; it is more of a spirit or an approach with global reach and global implications.
A graphic haven in the heart of BerlinIssue 55, Spring 2005
Review
Presentations … covered a panoramic, inspirational collection of work and ranged in delivery from humble, mumbly, apologetic and stern, to the cocky, passionate, witty and evangelical.
Theory must be put to workIssue 15, Winter 1994
Review

                                                Dutch art and design academies, unlike their UK counterparts, can be relied on to produce quality…                        
Defending the reader’s rightsIssue 15, Winter 1994
Review
Fellow Readers attempts to correct the theoretical posture of designers who subscribe to notions borrowed from post-structuralism and deconstruction
Democracy is in the detailsIssue 44, Summer 2002
Review
This was a national conference, with straightforward and memorable presentations from Matt Groening, Milton Glaser, Sylvia Harris and Dave Eggers …
The look of young JapanIssue 48, Summer 2003
Review

                                                The title of this doorstop-sized tome says a lot about Japanese design all by itself. JPG…                        
In memoriam: Martin Lee (1941-2025)Issue 108, Spring 2025
Feature

                                            Richard Smith pays tribute to a print production maestro who understood graphic designers as well as he understood printers and printing            
We made this: Czech design’s soft powerIssue 108, Spring 2025
Feature

                                            Eight years in the making, an ambitious project charts the story of a small nation’s outsize influence. By Linda Kudrnovská            
Reputations: Rob SaundersIssue 108, Spring 2025
Feature

                                            ‘We are in a moment of fascination with everything analogue, especially for designers who spend all day working on screens for screens. For them, it’s refreshing and mind-opening and inspiring in some magical way I can’t fully explain.’ Interview: Eric Heiman [EXTRACT]            
Modernism in the slow laneIssue 108, Spring 2025
Review

                                                In the years before the Second World War, Britain was slow to embrace the most…                        
Full of typosIssue 108, Spring 2025
Review

                                                Fraser Muggeridge is a busy guy: exhibitions about book spines, visiting lecturer almost everywhere, but…                        
Japan’s seismic changesIssue 108, Spring 2025
Review
Much of the work shown in this impressive historical overview has rarely been published in the West …
Future castersIssue 108, Spring 2025
Review

                                                I am lucky enough to live a stone’s throw from London’s Estorick Collection in Canonbury…                        
Reality is the killer appIssue 108, Spring 2025
Review
The exhibition strikes a balance between presenting a linear series of works and giving over entire spaces to immersive experiences …
In the shadow﻿ of JensonIssue 108, Spring 2025
Review
For now, we must content ourselves with one of the most important books on the history of type written this century.
About FaceIssue 108, Spring 2025
Review
The show documents the a tricky balancing act between championing successive music / youth culture movements and the demands of the fashion industry …
Henrietta Condak: ﻿Mistress of MasterworksIssue 108, Spring 2025
Feature

                                            Working in-house for CBS, this prolific art director combined illustration, lettering, typography and photography to make a significant body of design for serious music. By Elizabeth Resnick [EXTRACT]            
Editorial Eye 108Issue 108, Spring 2025
Opinion

                                            What may appear like ‘branding’ and ‘marketing’ often has the more compelling dynamic of editorial design …            
The faces of Nebiolo [EXTRACT]Issue 107, Winter 2025
Review
There is much more to Nebiolo’s history than a handful of types or the work of a single designer …
Band practice [EXTRACT]Issue 107, Winter 2025
Review
Few authors have taken the trouble to research and document the dark art of the rock band logo …
Change the paceIssue 107, Winter 2025
Review
This is an edition that anybody who designs, edits or publishes should read …
Latin Modern [EXTRACT]Issue 107, Winter 2025
Review
This MoMA exhibition marks the first time a major US museum has comprehensively examined modern design in Latin America …
Japanese design in Zürich [EXTRACT]Issue 107, Winter 2025
Review
Japan and Switzerland both enjoy rich graphic traditions, and both cultures draw their vigour from craftsmanship, clarity and simplicity.
Ultra processIssue 107, Winter 2025
Feature

                                            Tool, agent or end of days? John L. Walters asks designers and image-makers how and why they use visual AI and what this might mean for creativity             
Baked inIssue 107, Winter 2025
Feature

                                            Its ethical problems may be nothing new, but as ‘AI’ invades graphic designers’ workspaces, its excessive energy consumption, resource extraction and exploitation of creative labour need tackling head on. By J. P. Hartnett            
Editorial Eye 107Issue 107, Winter 2025
Opinion

                                                                            We often first experience cultural and technological changes through type and image, even if we…            
Democracy is in the detailsIssue 44, Summer 2002
Review

                                                ‘One more session and we’re outta here,’ said John Hockenberry. ‘We can all go back to…                        
New eraReview
Era 05. World Design Congress. 22-28 September 2005, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Oslo and Copenhagen. Reviewed by Steve Rigley
Refreshing but inscrutably exoticIssue 69, Autumn 2008
Review
3030: New Graphic Design in China brings together 30 designers, most of whom were born around the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) …
Anita Klinz: The first Italian art directorIssue 106, Summer 2024
Feature

                                            Over two crucial decades at Mondadori, designer Anita
Klinz transformed the look of Italian book publishing. Luca Pitoni tells her
story            
Putting the stories togetherIssue 106, Summer 2024
Review

                                                Please don’t be misled by the title of David Jury’s book Mid-Century Type. It is…                        
Harmony and counterpointIssue 106, Summer 2024
Feature

                                            The ideas and assumptions behind ‘global’ or ‘multi-script type’ raise complex and nuanced issues that have taxed both type designers and graphic designers for years. Current technology and the demands of communication and ‘branding’ have thrown up debates about the creation of readable documents, signs, packages and websites in which two or more different scripts are obliged to coexist. In this article, designers from different corners of the globe discuss some of the concerns and contradictions that inform the making and setting of multiple scripts with Ferdinand P. Ulrich 
[EXTRACT]            
Design by numbersIssue 106, Summer 2024
Review

                                                Digital images on the Mahanakhon Cube, a venue in Bangkok, design by Pentagram partner Eddie…                        
Cutting edge of typeIssue 106, Summer 2024
Review
‘Inscript’ inspires and empowers designers to push the boundaries of what is possible, charting a course towards a more innovative and inclusive future.
A compilation with cloutIssue 106, Summer 2024
Review
This compilation of Poynor’s previous writing is organised into three sections: 1. Definitions; 2. Tools; 3. Futures.
Archiving the archiveIssue 106, Summer 2024
Feature

                                            When the Type Archive left its London premises, its vast collection was disbanded and its working Monotype hot-metal plant moved to the National Collections Centre. Two long-serving volunteers talk to Eye about the challenges they faced and how the history of the Archive is now being preserved. Photographs by Philip Sayer [EXTRACT]            
Type history’s golden ageIssue 106, Summer 2024
Opinion

                                            Digital technology and online resources have prompted a flowering in type history, says Paul Shaw            
Editorial Eye 106Issue 106, Summer 2024
Opinion

                                            It is in the nature of an Eye type special issue to be full of the shapes of letterforms and images of letters.            
The data card trickIssue 105, Autumn 2023
Review

                                                Data visualisation occurs at the intersection of design and data. It is a practice that…                        
We’ll always have ParisIssue 105, Autumn 2023
Review
Expectations for the 66th annual ATypI conference were very high … the whole event was truly an energetic, noisy, and heartfelt affair.
Call and responseIssue 105, Autumn 2023
Review

                                                This hardback book is the catalogue for the 2022-2023 Letterform Archive exhibition of the same name…                        
The film poster as freeze-frameIssue 105, Autumn 2023
Review

                                                Moving Pictures Painted: 200 Posters from the Golden Age of Egyptian Cinema (CentreCentre, £30) lifts the…                        

Blog posts by various designers

Buy your tickets for Type Tuesday 10.03.26

6 March 2026
Type Tuesday, Typography, Type design

‘Punches to pixels’ at London’s SBF features Veronika Burian (TypeTogether), Richard Ardagh on Type Archived plus special guest Theo Hersey

So we urge everyone who can get to London easily to buy tickets for our first event of 2026.

Graphic design live #23

29 January 2026

A selection of current and upcoming graphic design and visual culture events worth noting …

Action is stronger than feeling

3 November 2025
Graphic design, Illustration, Events and exhibitions

‘Doing the Work’, the 2025 St Bride conference, brought some dynamic new personalities to the foreground. Report by Anoushka Khandwala

During a year in which the UK has seen far-right rallies, the conference was a renewed call to stand in solidarity with people of colour.

Design history in Ankara

24 October 2025
Critical path, Design history, Events and exhibitions

Jessica Jenkins reports from the Design History Society’s annual conference, held at Ankara Bilim University, 4-6 September 2025

The process of diversification is for each generation to re-define, but it is important to embrace the many ways of telling design history.

Graphic design live #22

8 October 2025
Design education, Typography, Events and exhibitions

Futuress Pressing Issues online, ‘Doing the Work’ at St Bride, Young Graphic Design Switzerland!, Typography Theory Practice, Systém Rathouský Metro, Blitz Kids at the Design Museum

Read the Eye Events page to hear about exhibitions, conferences, workshops and talks … and mark your diaries for the next Type Tuesday on 25 November

Graphic matters during wartime

22 September 2025
Graphic design, Illustration, Events and exhibitions

Despite Russian drone and missile attacks, the third FEED festival went ahead in Kyiv

Despite many challenges, Kyiv’s first big international festival of design and illustration went ahead without serious disruption.

James Mosley 1935-2025

29 August 2025
Design history, Typography

Catherine Dixon pays tribute to printing librarian, teacher and scholar James Mosley

Mosley was was rarely ‘centre stage’, yet his influence was significant … a popular speaker who wrote seminal texts on typographic history.

Books received #61

18 August 2025

Designed for Success, Floppy Disk Fever, Schriften, Lettering, Écritures and Propagandopolis

Four design publications that cover two kinds of discs, a legendary lettering manual and historical propaganda worldwide …

Graphic design live #20

9 May 2025
Graphic design, Illustration, New media, Type Tuesday, Typography

Type Tuesday, Barbara Kruger in Barcelona, Typographics Conference, Paulo de Cantos in Japan, Tirzah Garwood and Electric Dreams

Read the Eye Events page to stay up to date with exhibitions, conferences, talks and workshops … and book for Type Tuesday

Lost in the wash

17 March 2025
Brand madness, Reviews

Patrick Baglee reviews Nick Asbury’s book The Road to Hell

For Asbury, purpose is the opposite of creativity: ‘Purpose is a closed mindset: it decides the goal in advance.’

Digging out the roots

10 March 2025

The Swiss Style is the dominant style in modern graphic design. It is so shorn-down, it has little to date it …

Shifts and glyphs in Istanbul

26 February 2025

At ‘Critical Shifts’, a group exhibition in Istanbul, Türkiye, Gülizar Çepoğlu unfolds the materiality of writing

Three-dimensional letterforms blur the boundaries between text, image, architecture and sculpture …

Supergraphics in Newhaven

19 February 2025

Seventeen specially commissioned supergraphics breathe new life into the port town of Newhaven for the Look Again festival

Newhaven recently received a bright splash of paint and colour with the addition of seventeen specially commissioned murals

Relationships on show

14 February 2025
Design history, Visual culture

Jane Connory, Fanny Suhendra and Claire Fisher collaborate to flip the script on graphic design exhibitions and visually narrate the history of relationship agencies in Australia.

An installation in the National Gallery of Australia used design ephemera to explore 75 years of Relationships Australia …

Dress to express!

5 December 2024

‘Outlaws’ explores the influence of Australian performance artist Leigh Bowery, and his legendary London nightclub Taboo

What was so different about this a tiny club in a corner of Leicester Square, which barely lasted a year?

Books received #59 (catalogues)

19 November 2024
Reviews

Three catalogues: 100 Beste Plakate 2022, 28th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw and Paula Scher: Type is Image

This ‘books received’ focuses on a trio of graphic design catalogues.

A feast for the eye

11 November 2024
Reviews

‘Looks Delicious!’ explores the mouth-watering art of shokuhin sanpuru – Japanese replica food

Japan House London’s ‘Looks Delicious!’ is an incredible journey through a feast of Japanese food replica artistry and expertise.

Books received #58

25 September 2024
Book design, Graphic design, Posters, Reviews

Four titles: Znak. from Ukraine; Darren Leader's Logo Rewind; Present Tense: Wahine Toi Aotearoa from New Zealand; and Unidentified Paper Object No.3

The history and visual language of trademarks; an activist approach to underrepresented voices; and the work of Marion Bataille.

Lettering in the landscape

15 August 2024
Design education, Visual culture, Events and exhibitions

Mark Noad, Chair of the Lettering Arts Trust, considers the training and design behind hand-carved lettering and looks forward to two exhibitions of the carver’s art in the UK

Two questions are regularly levelled at letter-carvers: ‘what typeface is it?’ and ‘don’t you have…

They showed backbone

26 July 2024
Reviews

Spinorama is an exhibition of book spines in East London. Simon Esterson takes a sideways look

Seven artefacts in search of a museum

5 July 2024
Reviews

If Japan had its own design museum, what would it include? Janet South reports from ‘Design Discoveries’

‘Design Discoveries: Towards a Design Museum Japan’ is a free exhibition currently showing at Japan House London …

Single track to a wide territory

25 June 2024
Reviews, Typography, Events and exhibitions

Interaction and communication were the order of the day at the second ATypI conference to be held in the Southern hemisphere. John D. Berry reports

This year’s ATypI conference in Brisbane, Australia was the smallest ATypI in several decades, writes John Berry

Mini, Midi, Maxi …

29 May 2024

A new exhibition charts the rise and fall of the influential fashion brand Biba. Janet South reports

This London exhibition shows Biba’s evolution from mail-order catalogue to the gloriously short-lived ‘Big Biba’ …

Graphic design live #16

24 May 2024
Graphic design, Events and exhibitions

New exhibition by Onomatopee in Eindhoven; ‘Collection Insights’ at Museum für Gestaltung; The Vinyl Factory in London; Typographics 2024 in NYC; and ‘Now You See Us’ at Tate Britain

Current and upcoming events that have piqued our interest: exhibitions, conferences, talks and workshops …

Two winners, 2000 losers

11 January 2024
Awards madness, Critical path, Graphic design, Visual culture

Minnesota’s crowd-sourced flag and seal raise questions for professional design practice, writes Steven McCarthy

Women in the room

31 December 2023
Awards madness, Critical path, Design education, Design history, Graphic design

The fifth edition of the AIAP Women in Design Awards (AWDA) brought together exemplary work from around the world.

Dotting the ‘i’

24 November 2023
Design education, Typography

‘Phil Baines shows us how to revel in the joy of graphic design.’ Quentin Newark reviews ‘Extol’

Quentin Newark reviews ‘Extol: Phil Baines Celebrating Letters’ at CSM’s Lethaby Gallery

The fantastic light trip

6 November 2023

Kevin Foakes (aka DJ Food) uncovers a strange, bright corner of analogue audiovisual culture

Wheels of Light is about the light shows devised for gigs and discos in the 1970s, 80s and 90s

Graphic design live #14

29 August 2023
Graphic design, Posters, Type Tuesday, Visual culture, Events and exhibitions

John Warwicker in Tokyo and Kyoto; Eastern European Design in Warsaw; Hipgnosis and Christopher Wilson in London; and failed posters of environmental crisis.

With summer coming to a close, Eye presents a selection of current and upcoming events worth noting in your calendars …

Nothing is real

17 July 2023
Illustration, Visual culture, Events and exhibitions

Bad is the new good. Quentin Newark descends into Japan House for ‘Wave: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts’.

Visiting, you descend stairs, like going into the Underworld …

Graphic design live #13

4 July 2023
Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Posters, Events and exhibitions

magCulture in New York; Hipgnosis documentary (UK and online); contemporary Iranian posters in Zurich; and Mexican blackletter online.

Listed below are some current and upcoming events that have caught the attention of our editorial team this month. …

The collaboration games

20 June 2023
Graphic design, Reviews, Technology, Visual culture, Events and exhibitions

London Design Biennale 2023 positions design as a tool for global collaboration. By Gabriela Matuszyk

The biennale theme, ‘The Global Game’, responds to the current cultural climate by referencing Buckminster Fuller’s World Game …

The Panther experience

5 June 2023

New York’s Poster House explores the graphics at the heart of the Black Power movement. Robert Newman reports

‘Black Power to Black People’ is a powerful, inspirational collection of important cultural and political work …

Covid visualisations: 2023 update

6 February 2023
Design history, Information design, Motion graphics

Paul Kahn reflects upon the way Covid-19 data visualisations and reporting have changed over the past three years

In 2021, when ‘The pandemic that launched a thousand visualisations’ was published in Eye 101, there were hundreds of visualisations per week

Movers and shakers

6 October 2022
Graphic design, Typography, Motion graphics

Watch as DEMO takes over a multitude of Dutch public screens on Thursday 6 October

The second annual DEMO festival takes over 5000-plus screens on Dutch streets ...

Analogue survivors

20 September 2022
Graphic design, Information design, Technology, Typography, Events and exhibitions

Bob Richardson’s collection of BBC-related ephemera at St Bride is a must-see

‘A Kingdom of Cardboard’, which runs until 6 January 2023 at St Bride Library, is an…

How green is graphic design?

23 August 2022
Graphic design, Magazines, Technology, Type Tuesday, Events and exhibitions

Experts from the world of print, paper and graphic design discuss sustainability and print on Tuesday 6 September 2022

Join Pureprint’s Richard Owers, Jon Hill (Tortoise), Fedrigoni’s Annette Clayton and Eye’s Simon Esterson and guests to discuss doing the sustainable thing …

Bosnian War Posters

30 April 2022
Book design, Design history, Posters

A powerful collection of graphic art, collected shortly after the war ended, tells an emotive story of frenzied nationalism. By Daoud Sarhandi

In mid-1995, however, I went to Bosnia with a burning sense of outrage … we tracked down and photographed around 700 posters, magazine covers and postcards.

Year of the pictograms

8 September 2021
Brand madness, Design history, Graphic design, Information design, Posters, Reviews, Events and exhibitions

‘Tokyo 1964’ demonstrates the lasting influence of that year’s games on design for the Olympics

As this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games were nearing their end, an exhibition exploring the legacy…

Brazilian type bonanza

10 June 2021
Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Typography

Lazy Dog Press aims to crowdfund an English-language anthology of Tupigrafia, founded in São Paulo by Claudio Rocha and Tony de Marco

Few type mags have had a lifespan of more than two decades, but the Portuguese-language…

Have we all been bad designers?

5 May 2021

Humans invented waste, and designers are part of the problem. Richard van der Laken writes about the No Waste Challenge

Recent data suggests that our landfills are growing by some two billion tonnes of garbage…

An Iranian vision

5 November 2020
Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Typography

Despite censorship and sanctions, a bilingual magazine showcasing Iranian and Western design has flourished for two decades. By Steven Heller

The history of visual arts in Iran is divided into two historical periods of Iranian…

Letterpress celebration

13 October 2020
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Type Tuesday, Typography

Italy’s Tipoteca museum commemorates its quarter century with 25 specially commissioned posters. By Simon Esterson and James Clough

Based in Cornuda in the northeast of Italy, Tipoteca is one of the finest printing…

Crouwel’s institutional intuition

19 September 2020
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Reviews, Events and exhibitions

On the first anniversary of Wim Crouwel’s death, Alex J. Todd recalls a visit to the Stedelijk Museum exhibition ‘Mr. Gridnik’

On 19 September 2019, nine days before the opening of ‘Wim Crouwel: Mr. Gridnik’ at…

Font Li Beirut – harmony in discord

8 September 2020
Graphic design, Posters, Type Tuesday, Typography

Li Beirut is a unique font – made in a week by 160 type designers – to support victims of last month’s Beirut blast. Nadine Chahine writes for Eye about her Letters of Hope project

On Tuesday 4 August 2020, villages and towns to the north, east, and south of…

David King: Ranged Left!

1 September 2020
Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Posters, Type Tuesday

Eye’s next Type Tuesday, ‘David King: Ranged Left!’ will celebrate the life and work of David King (1943-2016)

Please join us for the next Type Tuesday at 6pm (British Summer Time) on…

Pier review

20 July 2020
Design history, Graphic design, Photography, Typography, Visual culture

Decorative typography and lettering evoke the halcyon days of the British seaside. The fourth in Justin Burns’s series about coastal graphic design

Lettering, typography, and accentuated three-dimensional signs dominate the British coast, writes Justin Burns. The bright…

Say their names

6 July 2020
Critical path, Graphic design, Illustration, Posters, Visual culture

In the weeks following George Floyd’s death, Minnesota’s Twin Cities filled with graphic expressions of rage, mourning, solidarity and hope. By Steven McCarthy

In the wake of George Floyd’s unwarranted death at the knee of a Minneapolis police…

Virtually speaking

24 June 2020
Design education, Graphic design, Illustration, New media

Design educator Nigel Ball weighs in on the positives that Covid-instigated online talks have offered students who live far from big cities

It seems inappropriate to suggest that some good has come out of Covid-19 – given…

Books of seaside revelations

3 June 2020
Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Visual culture

Guidebooks have enticed visitors to resorts since the nineteenth century. The third in Justin Burns’s series about coastal graphic design in the UK

For decades, the guidebook has navigated visitors through the bright lights of the seaside, showcasing…