Blog: Illustration
22 September 2025
Graphic matters during wartime
Despite Russian drone and missile attacks, the third FEED festival went ahead in Kyiv
Despite many challenges, Kyiv’s first big international festival of design and illustration went ahead without serious disruption.
9 May 2025
Graphic design live #20
Type Tuesday, Barbara Kruger in Barcelona, Typographics Conference, Paulo de Cantos in Japan, Tirzah Garwood and Electric Dreams
Read the Eye Events page to stay up to date with exhibitions, conferences, talks and workshops … and book for Type Tuesday
22 May 2024
BIG in Milan
The first Biennale Internazionale Grafica takes place from 23-26 May 2024
The Biennale Internazionale Grafica (BIG) opens this week, with four days of exhibitions, talks, etc. across Milan.
9 May 2024
Birmingham Design Festival 2024
Get ready for BDF 2024 (6-8 June) as the annual event focuses on ‘Process’ in graphic, digital and product design plus illustration
We are looking forward to Birmingham Design Festival next month, which Eye is supporting as a media sponsor.
19 October 2023
Picturebook people
Illustrator Michael Kirkham pays tribute to the Provensens
Authors, illustrators and designers Alice and Martin Provensen were a wife-and-husband team who made children’s picturebooks…
24 July 2023
Badges of Britain
Martyn Routledge’s The Beautiful History is a sporting ode to the history of Britain, writes Daniel Shannon.
The visual culture around football is a subject Martyn Routledge knows more about than most …
17 July 2023
Nothing is real
Bad is the new good. Quentin Newark descends into Japan House for ‘Wave: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts’.
Visiting, you descend stairs, like going into the Underworld …
15 January 2023
Graphic design live #9
Adana in London; Marclay in Paris; revolutionary graphics from Mexico and Germany in Los Angeles; and label art from Ireland in Dublin
Here are some January 2023 events highlights for your diaries. To stay up to date with…
26 October 2022
Books received #49
Marylou Faure; Karel Martens in space; Olimpia Zagnoli; and HELL: The People and Places by Chwast and Heller
It has been a while since we posted a handful of book releases. This month’s eclectic…
7 September 2022
Graphic design live #5
Air-India’s Maharaja in New York; Otl Aicher in Zurich; AGI Open in Trieste; BBC’s ‘Kingdom of Cardboard’ in London
Here are details of four of the many international events taking place during September 2022 …