Blog: Illustration

9 May 2025

Graphic design live #20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

12 April 2022

Bob Gill (1931-2021)

Bob Gill (1931-2021)

Bob Gill, graphic design

US designer Bob Gill was a founding father of British graphic design. Patrick Baglee pays tribute

Bob Gill, who has died aged 90, was a vocal advocate of the importance of original graphic solutions, determined not by the prevailing graphic style, but by the nature and context of the problem …

 
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