Just Add Stock goes live. <br /> The first entries for Eye’s new awards are coming in – where are yours? </br>

Just Add Stock goes live.
The first entries for Eye’s new awards are coming in – where are yours?

Just Add Stock is Eye magazine’s new competition for print or online designs that use stock imagery. Anyone can take part, and it’s free More »

Filed under: Awards madness, Graphic Design, Illustration, New Media, Photography, Visual Culture

Persepolis 2.0. <br />Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel is detourned to chart new events in Iran</br>

Persepolis 2.0.
Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel is detourned to chart new events in Iran

Appropriations and detournements are a time-honoured tradition in comics, writes Roger Sabin. The 1930s Tijuana Bibles took Popeye More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Illustration, Visual Culture

Eye before you buy. <br /> Sample some words & images; type & illustration from the past two issues</br>

Eye before you buy.
Sample some words & images; type & illustration from the past two issues

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Filed under: Graphic Design, Illustration, Magazines, Typography

Save the panda, but keep a low profile. <br />  ‘WWF’s logo was part of the problem, so it had to be part of the solution, too’ </br>

Save the panda, but keep a low profile.
‘WWF’s logo was part of the problem, so it had to be part of the solution, too’

Is illustration bringing something new to brand communications? For his Eye 72 feature ‘Drawn into conversation’, Steve Hare talked to Johnny Tan, executive creative director of BBH Shanghai, about Jianfeng Pan’s images for the ‘WWF Saves More Than Pandas’ campaign, and the state of the art in the Asia-Pacific region. More »

Filed under: Illustration, Posters, Visual Culture

(not so) Secret Blisters. <br />Screenprints on show and on sale for one night only<br />

(not so) Secret Blisters.
Screenprints on show and on sale for one night only

‘Secret Blisters’ takes place on Friday 26 June – it’s a Print Club London event that features screenprints by designer-illustrators such as More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Illustration, Posters, Visual Culture

Not in their elements.<br /> When illustrator Tony Meeuwissen met Rolling Stones Keef and Brian</br>

Not in their elements.
When illustrator Tony Meeuwissen met Rolling Stones Keef and Brian

I briefly met two Rolling Stones in 1967, writes Tony Meeuwissen, thanks to Al Vandenberg, the American master photographer (then an innovative art director) and my only genuine art teacher. More »

Filed under: Design history, Graphic Design, Illustration, Music design, Visual Culture

Eye 72 is on its way. <br />Marian Bantjes, Airfix, MTV and ‘the designer as illustrator’</br>

Eye 72 is on its way.
Marian Bantjes, Airfix, MTV and ‘the designer as illustrator’

Here’s the cover of the latest issue of Eye. We like it. And no, it doesn’t say ‘sex’, More »

Filed under: Book design, Design education, Design history, Graphic Design, Illustration, Magazines, Music design, New Media, Photography, Technology, Typography, Visual Culture

Heavy metal. <br />Anthony Oliver’s Common Knowledge piece about tractor badges from Eye 71</br>

Heavy metal.
Anthony Oliver’s Common Knowledge piece about tractor badges from Eye 71

My father was a design engineer who specialised in heavy earth-moving equipment, writes photographer Anthony Oliver, so I grew up around iconic names such as Kenworth Trucks, Caterpillar and Oshkosh More »

Filed under: Design history, Typography, Visual Culture

Smoke and mirrors. <br />Poke’s digital agency map for Super Contemporary at the Design Museum</br>

Smoke and mirrors.
Poke’s digital agency map for Super Contemporary at the Design Museum

It’s like a very simple video warfare game, chronologically controlled by one knob. As you enter the third quarter of 2001, writes John L. Walters, Razorfish explodes, More »

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

Up against the wall. <br /> Layouts of the forthcoming Eye magazine on the studio wall</br>

Up against the wall.
Layouts of the forthcoming Eye magazine on the studio wall

While we’re working on the magazine we stick layouts on the meeting room wall, More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Magazines