Eye Magazine

Will Burtin

Issue 103, Summer 2022

How do you tell the story of the way graphic design actually gets done? Two books…

Issue 2, Winter 1990

Fortune magazine was a visual encyclopedia of American business life

2 July 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Information design

Will Burtin, the man who invented infodesign, 1940s – from Eye 82

Born in 1908 in a working-class district of Cologne, nothing about Will Burtin’s childhood suggested…

7 October 2011
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Posters, Typography, Visual culture

Exhibition will explore the graphic world of pharmaceutical products

A new exhibition at The Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union will explore…

28 July 2008
Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Reviews

How Will Burtin used design for science in exhibitions and magazines

Above: the walk-in Cell exhibition, a million times larger than life, designed by Will Burtin…