Graphic appetiser. <br />‘We consume things visually before we consume them physically’</br>

Graphic appetiser.
‘We consume things visually before we consume them physically’

‘Appetite’, a forthcoming exhibition hosted by the Herb Lubalin Study Center at New York college The Cooper Union, will explore how design influences our day-to-day relationship with food. More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Visual Culture

The mag of the blog. <br /> It’s Nice That gear up to produce their fourth printed edition</br>

The mag of the blog.
It’s Nice That gear up to produce their fourth printed edition

The lights burn late around Shoreditch, not only at Eye, but also a couple of streets away where the It’s Nice That team are producing More »

Filed under: Book design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Magazines

Divine Noir. <br />From Hell to Heaven in Seymour Chwast’s graphic take on Dante</br>

Divine Noir.
From Hell to Heaven in Seymour Chwast’s graphic take on Dante

Seymour Chwast’s first graphic novel, published next week, sees the designer / illustrator tackle Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth century masterpiece the Divine Comedy. In this More »

Filed under: Illustration, Visual Culture

Escaping Modernism. <br />Edward Weston’s flight from photographic theory</br>

Escaping Modernism.
Edward Weston’s flight from photographic theory

The early twentieth century saw photography dominated by the influence of painting, with the then popular pictorial style drawing its reference points from the impressionist artists of the period, writes Wayne Ford. It was in this style, like many of his generation, that the great photographer Edward Weston More »

Filed under: Photography, Reviews, Visual Culture

Brief. En. Counter. <br /> #graphicdesignmovies and Twitter’s chronicles of wasted time </br>

Brief. En. Counter.
#graphicdesignmovies and Twitter’s chronicles of wasted time

Most of the Earth’s 6.79bn inhabitants know nothing of Twitter, but for those of us with accounts, it’s a dangerously More »

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

Merely cosmetic. <br />Are Asian skin-lightening creams being whitewashed for the west?</br>

Merely cosmetic.
Are Asian skin-lightening creams being whitewashed for the west?

In the recent era of globalisation of business, the cosmetic and personal product manufacturers are amongst the world’s largest advertisers, writes Lynne Ciochetto. The More »

Filed under: Magazines, Technology, Visual Culture

Xerox factor. <br />The short-lived graphic energy of punk fanzines and posters </br>

Xerox factor.
The short-lived graphic energy of punk fanzines and posters

In ‘Scribble and strum’, just published in Eye 76, Andrew Losowsky took us through the design of a selection of notable music magazines, past and present. When it came to the scrappy punk fanzines More »

Filed under: Magazines, Music design, Posters, Visual Culture

A quick burst of sound. <br />Zurich this autumn: the typographic music of posters made of letters</br>

A quick burst of sound.
Zurich this autumn: the typographic music of posters made of letters

‘Writing is Drawing is Writing’ is a declaration by the late graphic designer Alan Fletcher, a man whose hand formed words and images with seamless skill, writes Emily King. Fletcher was talking about the relationship between sketching and handwriting, but his claim applies more broadly. More »

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

Signs of The Times. <br />The enduring appeal of bizarre road signs and notices, from then and now</br>

Signs of The Times.
The enduring appeal of bizarre road signs and notices, from then and now

My mother, Margaret, always delighted in funny street signs when we went on road trips, often reading out loud the notices that caught her eye, writes John L. Walters. More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Photography, Visual Culture

Eyes and ears. <br /> A rare glimpse of the art and craft behind ECM’s visual identity</br>

Eyes and ears.
A rare glimpse of the art and craft behind ECM’s visual identity

Adrian Shaughnessy’s article ‘One man brand’ in Eye 76, the Music design special issue, is about the graphic design and identity of Manfred Eicher’s music label ECM. (Spreads belowfull article on the Eye website.)

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Filed under: Graphic Design, Illustration, Music design, Photography, Typography, Visual Culture