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Eye magazine - issue 108 - Reading Room

 

Eye / 108

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Opinion

 

Editorial Eye 108

John L. Walters

What may appear like ‘branding’ and ‘marketing’ often has the more compelling dynamic of editorial design …

 

The first brand mag?

Design history, Typography, Visual culture, Andy Altmann

The chance discovery of a set of bound volumes revealed a treasure trove of trade marks. By Andy Altmann

 

Going off the grid

Critical path, Graphic design, Magazines, Rick Poynor

Plastikcomb magazine looks back to 1990s graphics with stylish aplomb … and a focus on contemporary collage-makers.

Features

 

Reputations: Rob Saunders

Eric Heiman

‘We are in a moment of fascination with everything analogue, especially for designers who spend all day working on screens for screens. For them, it’s refreshing and mind-opening and inspiring in some magical way I can’t fully explain.’ Interview: Eric Heiman [EXTRACT]

 

Jacket required

Robert Hanks

A love of reading gives Jon Gray’s book covers their edge. By Robert Hanks [EXTRACT]

 

Henrietta Condak: Mistress of Masterworks

Elizabeth Resnick

Working in-house for CBS, this prolific art director combined illustration, lettering, typography and photography to make a significant body of design for serious music. By Elizabeth Resnick 

 

Films on tap

John L. Walters

Founded in 2007 by Efe Cakarel, Mubi favours editorial design over marketing conventions to reach twenty million subscribers in 190 countries. By John L. Walters [EXTRACT]

 

Dafi Kühne comes to town

Richard Ardagh

A grey London February was enlivened by a visit from the Swiss letterpress innovator. Report: Richard Ardagh 

 

Eye type reviews

Silvia Sfligiotti, Ferdinand P. Ulrich, Toshiya Izumo, Mark Thomson, Yara Khoury Nammour

Four contemporary type reviews by Silvia Sfligiotti, Ferdinand P. Ulrich & Toshiya Izumo, Yara Khoury Nammour and Mark Thomson

 

We made this: Czech design’s soft power

Linda Kudrnovská

Eight years in the making, an ambitious project charts the story of a small nation’s outsize influence. By Linda Kudrnovská

 

In memoriam: Martin Lee (1941-2025)

Richard Smith

Richard Smith pays tribute to a print production maestro who understood graphic designers as well as he understood printers and printing

 

Reviews

The Face Magazine: Culture Shift

The Jenson roman, or the most influential type in the history of printing

Draw

Electric Dreams – Art and Technology Before the Internet

Breaking Lines

Typography Theory Practice

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

Fantasy: Invention, Creativity, and Imagination in Visual Communication. By Bruno Munari

Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945-1980

Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875-1975

 

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Eye, the international review of graphic design.

It defines itself as "the international review of graphic design" and, in fact, the magazine founded in 1990 by Rick Poynor and today directed by John L. Walters can be considered somewhat of the bible of the sector. Every quarter, Eye puts the latest graphics trends in black and white (and other colors). The white, then, is not left to chance, but is that of three different types of paper that make up one of the most collected and curated magazines in the world. The focus of the magazine is graphics and visual arts, explored with insights, interviews, comments, reviews and images.

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