
In ‘
Poundtastic bombastic’ Eye’s latest Web-only Critique,
Rick Poynor wonders whether it’s time for Poundland to ditch its ‘proletarian design’.
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Veronika Burian and José Scaglione launched their independent type foundry
TypeTogether in 2006.
Eye’s
Simon Esterson asked Burian about her experiences with
Typekit and her views on online typography in general.
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The fifteenth TYPO Berlin brought together some international heavyweight speakers over three balmy spring days at the Kongressehalle including
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Typeface, screened last week at the London College of Communication, is billed by its makers as documenting a convergence of modern design and traditional technique,
writes Sally Jeffery. In truth the film is
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The new
Times website,
thetimes.co.uk launched this morning,
writes Simon Esterson. There’s a month to sample it on free trial before it goes
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TYPO Berlin 2010 is Europe’s largest design conference,
writes Robin Richmond, with 1500 delegates from eleven countries attending. Proceedings begin a little after 2pm on Thursday, when Erik
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By day Stefanie Posavec works as a book sleeve designer for Penguin Books. At night she judges books more deeply than by cover alone,
writes Ralph Cowling.
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Yesterday I spent some time at the Wilson Road annexe of University of the Arts London, Camberwell for the ‘Key Ideas’ discussion forum
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The third issue of
Avant-Garde, May 1968, ran an attention-grabbing feature entitled ‘Revaluation of the Dollar: 19 Artists Design a New One-Dollar Bill.’
You can see the magazine’s cover (below) in ‘Up close and tight’, the Eye 75 feature More »

As part of a project at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts in Brisbane, visitors could insert new words into Australia’s national anthems via SMS.
Designers Inkahoots then incorporated their inventions into illuminated typographic sculptures More »