Bees, maths and printing.
Numbers take centre stage at Minnesota Center for Book Arts

The film about the Hamilton wood type foundry in Wisconsin reviewed on the Eye blog prompted a visit to the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, writes Sally Jeffery. 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 »

Cool for (copy) cats?
Similarities: from plagiarisation and rip-offs … to homage and inspiration

This seemingly effortless poster by Abram Games, along with its ham-fisted imitator, is one of a riveting set of graphic design images assembled by Bob Caruthers, writes Sally Jeffery. More »

Ghostly amphibians.
Deviant toads and art-science collisions in London

Some tiny, jewel-like translucent toadlets are making a brief appearance at the Royal Institution, in an exhibition called ‘The Case of the Deviant Toad’, writes Sally Jeffery. More »

Are you sitting comfortably?
70 different ways to get children to
Sit Down at the Museum of Childhood

Left to themselves, children settling down with a book will almost always drape, wedge, lean, sprawl or up-end themselves, rather than sit nicely on chairs, writes Sally Jeffery. Sit Down is a record of several centuries’ worth of attempted interventions in this unruliness, More »

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 »