LA logo attack. <br /> H5’s ‘highly caffeinated’ Logorama wins the Oscar for best short film </br>

LA logo attack.
H5’s ‘highly caffeinated’ Logorama wins the Oscar for best short film

Earlier this week, H5’s Logorama won the Academy Award for best animated short. Here’s the film, followed by Matt Soar’s review from the current issue of Eye. More »

Filed under: Awards madness, Graphic Design, Visual Culture

Fit to print. <br /> Newspaper Club shows what we can do with tomorrow’s papers</br>

Fit to print.
Newspaper Club shows what we can do with tomorrow’s papers

Newspaper Club didn’t think they had a hope of following Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster and winning the Graphics category at the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010, writes Chloë King. It was always going be a tough choice More »

Filed under: Awards madness, Graphic Design, Technology, Typography

Ms Understood in Whitechapel.<br /> Eye looks back at 1970s campaign posters on International Women’s Day </br>

Ms Understood in Whitechapel.
Eye looks back at 1970s campaign posters on International Women’s Day

These campaign posters may never have been widely seen, but they should be, writes Sally Jeffery. They are up on the walls again now for ‘Ms Understood’, an exhibition at the Women’s Library in Whitechapel, London now extended until 17 April. More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Posters, Visual Culture

Grease is the Word. <br />The chipboard lexicon of London’s latest literary festival</br>

Grease is the Word.
The chipboard lexicon of London’s latest literary festival

Eye visited The Chip Shop run by the Henningham Family Press at the launch of the London Word Festival, which started on Sunday 7 March 2010. More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Technology, Visual Culture

Up in the Cloud? <br /> Editors and designers huddle together for ‘What’s on your iPad?’ </br>

Up in the Cloud?
Editors and designers huddle together for ‘What’s on your iPad?’

The sold-out ‘What’s On Your iPad’ event, organised jointly by the BSME (British Society of Magazine Editors) and the EDO (Editorial Design Organisation), attracted a broad mix of editors, publishers, designers and art directors, all curious to speculate about what the future might bring, More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Magazines, New Media, Technology, Typography

‘Unimaginably powerful, infinitely fragile.’ <br /> Jason Epstein’s article about digitisation & the future of publishing </br>

‘Unimaginably powerful, infinitely fragile.’
Jason Epstein’s article about digitisation & the future of publishing

This article has been much quoted and Tweeted over the past couple of weeks, but if you haven’t seen it yet, we recommend you get hold of a copy More »

Filed under: Book design, Graphic Design, Technology

Signs of a city. <br />Eye revisits the typography of Athenian street signs</br>

Signs of a city.
Eye revisits the typography of Athenian street signs

When Minos Zarifopoulos wrote about Athenian street signs in Eye 45, he worried that a project to remove modern billboards and other ‘visual disturbances’ could give the impression of ‘walking around an open-air museum of how Athens used to be’, writes John Ridpath. Eight years on, it’s still up for debate whether More »

Filed under: Design history, Magazines, Photography, Technology, Typography, Visual Culture

Back to the future. <br />Day two at the ‘Decoding the digital’ conference at the V&A</br>

Back to the future.
Day two at the ‘Decoding the digital’ conference at the V&A

Day two of the ‘Decoding the Digital’, conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, kicked off with a change of scene, writes Liz Farrelly.

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Filed under: Design education, Design history, Graphic Design, New Media, Technology, Visual Culture

Glamour profession. <br />Anthony Burrill’s graphics for Jenny Packham at London Fashion Week</br>

Glamour profession.
Anthony Burrill’s graphics for Jenny Packham at London Fashion Week

‘It was all my favourite things in one place,’ says Anthony Burrill, delighted by his latest venture into the world of high fashion. More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Music design, Visual Culture

The Wm. Morris code. <br /> Finding digital roots in the Arts and Crafts Movement</br>

The Wm. Morris code.
Finding digital roots in the Arts and Crafts Movement

The first day of the ‘Decoding the Digital’ conference (Victoria and Albert Museum, London 4-5 February 2010) conference was ground-breaking, writes Liz Farrelly, welcoming a new V&A collection, and pointing up areas of art and design history that still need writing.

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Filed under: Design history, New Media, Technology