Poundtastic bombastic.
‘Poundland’s graphic repertoire is the retail equivalent of budget airlines’

In ‘Poundtastic bombastic’ Eye’s latest Web-only Critique, Rick Poynor wonders whether it’s time for Poundland to ditch its ‘proletarian design’. More »

Veronika Burian and TypeTogether.
How we learned to stop worrying about pirates and love type on the Web

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. More »

More TYPO Berlin.
Likes and dislikes: part two of Eye’s coverage of the 2010 conference

The fifteenth TYPO Berlin brought together some international heavyweight speakers over three balmy spring days at the Kongressehalle including More »

Typeface, the movie.
New designers test old methods at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum

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 More »

Thunderer comes out fighting.
Will thetimes.co.uk change our view of what an online newspaper looks like?

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 More »

At the mercy of the Twitter critics.

Robin Richmond is left wondering what defines value at TYPO Berlin

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 More »

Visualising prose in all its complexity.
Each of Stefanie Posavec’s pictures is truly worth a thousand words

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. More »

Say the Word.
‘Provocations’ prompt Camberwell students to think about type

Yesterday I spent some time at the Wilson Road annexe of University of the Arts London, Camberwell for the ‘Key Ideas’ discussion forum More »

Revalue the dollar.
How art director Herb Lubalin got his illustrator friends to make money

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 »

New Aussie anthems.
‘And he leveraged his assets as he sat and liquidated by the billabong’

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 »