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Eye Magazine, The International Review of Graphic Design is a quarterly print magazine on graphic design and visual culture.

History

First published in London in 1990, Eye was founded by Rick Poynor

Rick Poynor

Rick Poynor is a British writer on design, graphic design, typography and visual culture. He began as a general visual arts journalist, working on Blueprint magazine in London. After founding Eye magazine , which he edited from 1990 to 1997, he focused increasingly on visual communication...

, a prolific writer on graphic design and visual communication. Poynor edited the first twenty-four issues (1990-1997). Max Bruinsma was the second editor, editing issues 25–32 (1997–1999), before its current editor John L. Walters

John L. Walters

John L. Walters is a British editor, critic and composer. He was a founding member of the band Landscape, best known for the 1981 hit ‘Einstein A Go-Go’ which reached no. 5 in the UK charts...

took over in 1999. Stephen Coates was art director for issues 1-26, Nick Bell was art director from issues 27-57, and Simon Esterson has been art director since issue 58.

Frequent contributors include Phil Baines, Steven Heller

Steven Heller (graphic design)

Steven Heller is an American art director, journalist, critic, author, and editor who specializes on topics related to graphic design....

, Steve Hare, Richard Hollis, Robin Kinross, Jan Middendorp, J. Abbott Miller

J. Abbott Miller

J. Abbott Miller or Abbott Miller was born in Indiana and studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. Miller is a graphic designer and writer. He is a partner in the New York office of the design firm Pentagram. He edits 2wice magazine...

, John O’Reilly, Rick Poynor

Rick Poynor

, Alice Twemlow

Alice Twemlow

Alice Twemlow is a writer, critic and educator whose work focuses on graphic design.Twemlow earned an MA in design history from a joint program of the Royal College of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. She has been a guest critic at the Yale University School of Art and at RISD...

, Kerry William Purcell

Kerry William Purcell

Kerry William Purcell is an English author on graphic design and visual culture. He is a frequent contributor to , and .Born in Cleethorpes, Purcell is a writer, design critic and historian. His first book on the celebrated art director and photographer was published by Phaidon Press in 2002...

, Steve Rigley, Adrian Shaughnessy, David Thompson, Christopher Wilson and many others.

Other contributors have included Nick Bell (creative director from issues 27-57), Gavin Bryars

Gavin Bryars

Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.-Early life and career:Born in Goole, East...

, Anne Burdick, Brendan Dawes, Simon Esterson (art director since issue 58), Malcolm Garrett

Malcolm Garrett

Malcolm Garrett is a British graphic designer, who has worked for music artists such as Simple Minds, Magazine, Duran Duran and Peter Gabriel...

, Anna Gerber, Jonathan Jones, Emily King

Emily King

Emily King is a Grammy-nominated American singer and songwriter. She started her career in 2004 and her debut album East Side Story was released three years later in August 2007...

, Ellen Lupton

Ellen Lupton

Ellen Lupton was born in 1963, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer, writer, curator, and educator. Well known for her fascination and study within "typography", Lupton decided to expand her love for design, and later took on the graphic design world...

, Russell Mills

Russell Mills (artist)

Russell Mills is a British artist who was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, UK in 1952. He paints, creates multimedia installations, designs stage sets and lighting and has produced record covers and book covers for Brian Eno, the Cocteau Twins,Michael Nyman, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, and Nine Inch...

, Quentin Newark, Tom Phillips, Robin Rimbaud

Robin Rimbaud

Robin Rimbaud is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance...

, Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister Inc.—in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.-Biography:Sagmeister studied graphic design at the...

, Sue Steward, Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen....

, Teal Triggs, Val Williams and Judith Williamson.

The magazine has had five publishers: Wordsearch, Emap

EMAP

Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...

, Quantum Publishing, Haymarket Brand Media and Eye Magazine Ltd., formed in April 2008 after a management buy-out (MBO).

List of issues

Following is a list of issues of Eye. Highlighted issues are special issues on typography.

Number	Volume	Date (on spine)	Editor	Art Director	Publisher	Contents (based on information given on spine and back cover)
Eye No. 1	Vol. 1	1990	Rick Poynor Rick Poynor Rick Poynor is a British writer on design, graphic design, typography and visual culture. He began as a general visual arts journalist, working on Blueprint magazine in London. After founding Eye magazine , which he edited from 1990 to 1997, he focused increasingly on visual communication...	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Bruno Monguzzi Bruno Monguzzi Bruno Monguzzi is a Swiss graphic designer.Monguzzi was born in Mendrisio, Switzerland in 1941. He later moved to Geneva with his family and attended the Graphic Design Course at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs.... , Television Graphics, Dutch PTT, Blue Note Records Blue Note Records Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters... Covers, Eckhard Jung
Eye No. 2	Vol. 1	Winter 1991	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Fortune Magazine Fortune (magazine) Fortune is a global business magazine published by Time Inc. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner. In turn, AOL grew as it acquired Time Warner in 2000 when Time Warner was the world's largest... , Jake Tilson, Jan van Toorn, Alan Fletcher Alan Fletcher (graphic designer) Alan Gerard Fletcher was a British graphic designer. In his obituary, he was described by The Daily Telegraph as "the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation, and probably one of the most prolific".... , Typography Germany '90
Eye No. 3	Vol. 1	Spring 1991	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Gerard Unger Gerard Unger Gerard Unger is a graphic and type designer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1963-67, and subsequently worked at Total Design, Prad and Joh. Enschedé. In 1975, he established himself as an independent developer... , Cranbrook Academy of Art, Willy Fleckhaus, 8vo 8vo (design) 8vo is a London-based graphic design firm formed in 1985 by Simon Johnston, Mark Holt and Hamish Muir.-Designs for Durutti Column and Factory Records:8vo produced the artwork for many Factory Records records sleeves and promotional material... , Pierre Bernard
Eye No. 4	Vol. 1	1991	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Robert Brownjohn Robert Brownjohn Robert Brownjohn was a graphic designer known for blending formal graphic design concepts with wit and sixties pop culture... , Magazine Magazine Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three... Design, Henryk Tomaszewski, Wolfgang Weingart Wolfgang Weingart Wolfgang Weingart is an internationally known graphic designer and typographer. His work is categorized as Swiss typography and he is credited as "the father" of New Wave or Swiss Punk typography....
Eye No. 5	Vol. 2	1991	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Russell Mills Russell Mills (artist) Russell Mills is a British artist who was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, UK in 1952. He paints, creates multimedia installations, designs stage sets and lighting and has produced record covers and book covers for Brian Eno, the Cocteau Twins,Michael Nyman, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, and Nine Inch... , Grappa, Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed... , Design of Money Money Money is any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, occasionally in the past,... , Japanese Manga Manga Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th... , Geof Kern
Eye No. 6	Vol. 2	1992	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Neville Brody Neville Brody Neville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director.Neville Brody is an alumnus of the London College of Printing and Hornsey College of Art, and is known for his work on The Face magazine and Arena magazine , as well as for designing record covers for artists such as... , AIDS AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus... Posters, Barney Bubbles Barney Bubbles Colin Fulcher aka Barney Bubbles was a radical English graphic artist, whose work primarily encompassed the disciplines of graphic design, painting and music video direction. He is most renowned for his distinctive contribution to the graphic design associated with the British independent music... , Template Gothic, Rick Valicenti
Eye No. 7	Vol. 2	1992	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Emigre Emigre Emigre, also known as Emigre Graphics, is a digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design centered information based in Berkeley, California, that was founded in 1984 by husband-and-wife team Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko. The type foundry also published Emigre magazine... , Fluxus Fluxus Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,... , Digital Revolution in Type, Oz Cooper, Why Not Associates
Eye No. 8	Vol. 2	1993	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Skolos Wedell, RAW Magazine RAW (magazine) RAW was a comics anthology edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly and published by Mouly from 1980 to 1991. It was a flagship publication of the 1980s alternative comics movement, serving as a more intellectual counterpoint to Robert Crumb's visceral Weirdo, which followed squarely in the... , Quentin Fiore, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville Sheila Levrant de Bretteville Sheila Levrant de Bretteville is a graphic designer, artist and educator whose work reflects her belief in the importance of feminist principles and user participation in graphic design... , Post-Modernism
Eye No. 9	Vol. 3	1993	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Max Bittrof, Derek Birdsall Derek Birdsall -Early life:Birdsall was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1934 and attended The King's School, Pontefract, Wakefield College of Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts in London... , Video Packaging, Roman Cieslewicz, Cult of the Ugly
Eye No. 10	Vol. 3	1993	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Vaughan Oliver Vaughan Oliver Vaughan Oliver is a British graphic designer based in Epsom, South of London. Oliver is most noted for his work with graphic design studios 23 Envelope and v23... , Shinro Ohtake, Alexander Liberman Alexander Liberman Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications.-Biography:When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow... , Alvin Lustig Alvin Lustig Alvin Lustig was an American graphic designer and typeface designer. He studied at Los Angeles City College, Art Center, and independently with Frank Lloyd Wright and Jean Charlot. He began designing for books in 1937. In 1944 he became Director of Visual Research for Look Magazine. He also... , Edward Wright
Eye No. 11	Vol. 3	1993	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Jeffery Keedy Jeffery Keedy Jeffery Keedy is an American graphic designer, type designer, writer and educator.Keedy has been teaching design at the California Institute of the Arts since 1985. Keedy was also a frequent contributor to Emigre magazine throughout the twenty years of its publication... , Word Art, Matthew Carter Matthew Carter Matthew Carter is a type designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Carter's career in type design has witnessed the transition from physical metal type to digital type... , Fuel, Karel Martens, Experimental Type
Eye No. 12 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=43	Vol. 3	1994	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Wordsearch Ltd	Malcolm Garrett Malcolm Garrett Malcolm Garrett is a British graphic designer, who has worked for music artists such as Simple Minds, Magazine, Duran Duran and Peter Gabriel... , Karel Tiege, P. Scott Makela P. Scott Makela P. Scott Makela was a graphic designer, multimedia designer and type designer.Among other work, he was especially noted for the design of Dead History, a postmodern typeface that combined features of a rounded sans serif typeface and a crisp neo-classical serif typeface... , Gaberbocchus Press, Douglas Brothers
Eye No. 13 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=42	Vol. 4	Summer 1994	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Architecture EMAP Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...	Anthon Beeke, Ladislav Sutnar Ladislav Sutnar Ladislav Sutnar was a graphic designer from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia who was a pioneer of information design and information architecture. Although he is uncredited, his contributions to business organization benefited society, which included creating a user-friendly telephone directory by... , Tomato, Design for Society, Perfume Packaging, Irma Boom Irma Boom Irma Boom is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer who specializes in book making. With her use of unfamiliar formats, materials, colors, structures, and typography. Boom turns books into a visual and haptic experience. Boom has established an international reputation, according to an interview in...
Eye No. 14 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=45	Vol. 4	Autumn 1994	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Architecture	Dan Friedman, Multimedia Multimedia Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or... , Reverb, Andrzej Klimowski, Underground Matriarchy
Eye No. 15 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=46	Vol. 4	Winter 1994	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Architecture	Bruce Mau Bruce Mau Bruce Mau is a Canadian designer. Mau is the creative director of Bruce Mau Design, and the founder of the Institute without Boundaries.-Life and career:... , The Composing Room, Fuse, Mass-Market Style, Jonathan Barnbrook Jonathan Barnbrook Jonathan Barnbrook , is a British graphic designer and typographer. He trained at Central St Martin's and at the Royal College of Art .- Work :...
Eye No. 16 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=47	Vol. 4	Spring 1995	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Architecture	ECM Records, Katherine McCoy, Massin Robert Massin Robert Massin is a French graphic designer, art director and typographer who is notable for his innovative experimentation with expressive forms of typographic composition. Massin stopped using his first name in the 1950s.-Biography:... , Go-Faster Graphics, Ark Magazine, Criticism
Eye No. 17 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=49	Vol. 5	Summer 1995	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Architecture	Cyan, Peter Saville, Digital Photography Digital photography Digital photography is a form of photography that uses an array of light sensitive sensors to capture the image focused by the lens, as opposed to an exposure on light sensitive film... , Lucille Tenazas, Advertising Advertising Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common... , New Dutch Sobriety
Eye No. 18 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=50	Vol. 5	Autumn 1995	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Construct EMAP Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...	Cipe Pineles, Fabien Baron, Style, Erik Spiekermann Erik Spiekermann Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen.... , Book Covers, Johanna Drucker Johanna Drucker Johanna Drucker is an author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital aesthetics...
Eye No. 19 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=51	Vol. 5	Winter 1995	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Construct	Studio Dumbar, Brand Brand The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers."... Mythology, Josef Muller-Brockmann Josef Müller-Brockmann Josef Müller-Brockmann, , was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1936 he opened his Zurich studio specialising in graphic design, exhibition design and photography. From 1951 he... , David Crow, Pierre Faucheux
Eye No. 20 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=30	Vol. 5	Spring 1996	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Construct	Amy Guip, Graphic Authorship, Tibor Kalman Tibor Kalman Tibor Kalman was an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well-known for his work as editor-in-chief of Colors magazine.... , Concrete Poetry Concrete poetry Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on.... , Lars Muller, Fashion
Eye No. 21 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=28	Vol. 6	Summer 1996	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Construct	Me Company, Annual Reports, Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway, CBE is a British film director. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular... , Design for Classical Music, Sue Coe Sue Coe Sue Coe is an English artist and illustrator working primarily in drawing and printmaking, often in the form of illustrated books and comics. She grew up close to a slaughterhouse and developed a passion to stop cruelty to animals. Coe studied at the Royal College of Art in London, lived in New...
Eye No. 22 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=29	Vol. 6	Autumn 1996	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Construct	Cornel Windlin, The Big Idea, Dan Fern, Art Catalogues, The Dumbing-Down of Design
Eye No. 23 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=26	Vol. 6	Winter 1996	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Construct	David James, W.A. Dwiggins, Edward Fella’s Sketchbooks, Pierre di Sciullo, Hans-Rudolf Lutz
Eye No. 24 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=24	Vol. 6	Spring 1997	Rick Poynor	Stephen Coates	Emap Construct	Mark Farrow, Uwe Loesch, Babe Culture, Body Modernism, Michael Bierut Michael Bierut Michael Bierut is a graphic designer, design critic and educator.Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.... , Lester Beall Lester Beall Lester Beall was a twentieth-century American graphic designer notable as a leading proponent of modernist graphic design in the United States.His clear and concise use of typography was highly praised both in the United States and abroad...
Eye No. 25 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=25	Vol. 7	Summer 1997	Max Bruinsma	Stephen Coates	Emap Construct	Paul Elliman Paul Elliman Paul Elliman is an artist and designer based in London. His work combines an interest in typography and the human voice, often referring to forms of audio signage that mediate a relationship between both... , The Aesthetics of Transience, Milton Glaser Milton Glaser Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.-Biography:Glaser was born into a Hungarian... , Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ... , Willem Sandberg
Eye No. 26 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=23	Vol. 7	Autumn 1997	Max Bruinsma	Stephen Coates	Quantum Publishing	Graphic Scores, Gunter Rambow, Web Interfaces, Mieke Gerritzen, Picture Magazines
Eye No. 27 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=22	Vol. 7	Spring 1998	Max Bruinsma	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	The Endless Library, Funny Garbage, Erik Nitsche, Artists’ Books, Gerard Paris-Clavel
Eye No. 28 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=15	Vol. 7	Summer 1998	Max Bruinsma	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Post Tool, The Architectural Review Architectural Review The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine published in London since 1896. Articles cover the built environment which includes landscape, building design, interior design and urbanism as well as theory of these subjects.... , Opaque Icons, Museum of the Ordinary, Wired Wired (magazine) Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...
Eye No. 29 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=27	Vol. 8	Autumn 1998	Max Bruinsma	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :... , Oliviero Toscani Oliviero Toscani Oliviero Toscani is an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000... , George Luis, Germano Facetti Germano Facetti Germano Facetti was an Italian graphic designer who headed design at Penguin Books from 1962 to 1971.Born in Milan he was arrested in 1943 for putting up anti-Fascist posters... , Design Is Advertising #1
Eye No. 30 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=21	Vol. 8	Winter 1998	Max Bruinsma	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	James Victore James Victore James Victore is an artist and designer .He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, but never graduated.His work has been shown at major art institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.... , General Idea General Idea General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1967 to 1994.As pioneers of early conceptual and media-based art, their collaboration became a model for artist-initiated activities and continues to be a prominent influence on... , Terry Jones, Computer Games, Design Is Advertising #2
Eye No. 31 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=20	Vol. 8	Spring 1999	Max Bruinsma	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Typographica Typographica Typographica was the name of a journal of typography and visual arts founded and edited by Herbert Spencer from 1949 to 1967. Spencer was just 25 years old when the first Typographica was issued.... , Designers in LA, Illustration, Browsers That Think, Adrian Frutiger Adrian Frutiger Adrian Frutiger is one of the prominent typeface designers of the 20th century, who continues to influence the direction of digital typography in the 21st century; he is best known for creating the typefaces Univers and Frutiger.-Early life:Adrian Frutiger was born in Unterseen, Canton of Bern, as...
Eye No. 32 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=19	Vol. 8	Summer 1999	Max Bruinsma	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Piet Schreuders, Pablo Ferro, Muller+Hess, Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947... ’s Typography, Robin Fior
Eye No. 33 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=18	Vol. 9	Autumn 1999	John L. Walters John L. Walters John L. Walters is a British editor, critic and composer. He was a founding member of the band Landscape, best known for the 1981 hit ‘Einstein A Go-Go’ which reached no. 5 in the UK charts...	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	First Things First 2000 First things first 2000 Manifesto The First Things First 2000 manifesto, launched by Adbusters magazine in 1999, was an updated version of the earlier First Things First manifesto written and published in 1964 by Ken Garland, a British designer.... , Pop Music Art, Bob Gill Bob Gill (artist) Bob Gill , American illustrator and graphic designer. He played the piano at summer resorts in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to pay his school tuition. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art , Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts , City College of New York... , Type: Static Page and Moving Screen, Punk
Eye No. 34 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=17	Vol. 9	Winter 1999	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Public Realm: Road Signs by Kinneir Calvert, Non-Place, Jean Widmer, Surface Wreckage
Eye No. 35 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=16	Vol. 9	Spring 2000	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Peter Blake Peter Blake (artist) Sir Peter Thomas Blake, KBE, CBE, RDI, RA is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He lives in Chiswick, London, UK.-Career:... , Complex Simplicity, Sister Corita Kent Corita Kent Corita Kent , aka Sister Mary Corita Kent, was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kent was an artist and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen and serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium... , Return of the Picture, Makoto Saito Makoto Saito (designer) Makoto Saito is a Japanese graphic designer and a self-described "poster designer".Saito was born in 1952 in Fukuoka, Japan. His early work as a printmaker was successful, shown internationally, and is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Saito worked from 1974 to 1980 at...
Eye No. 36 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=6	Vol. 9	Summer 2000	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Design Publishing, Fernando Gutierrez, Magazines, Lorraine Wild Lorraine Wild -Biography:Lorraine Wild was born in Ontario, Canada, but has lived in America for a greater part of her life. She is a world-famous graphic designer, published writer, art historian, and art instructor of design. In 1973, she entered the Cranbrook Academy of Art program which was, at the time,... , Underground Press Underground press The underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations....
Eye No. 37 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=7	Vol. 10	Autumn 2000	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	John Maeda, Dance Scores, Open-Air Letterforms: Brossa Joan Brossa Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo (Barcelona, Catalonia,(1919–1998) was a Catalan poet in the Catalan language, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Set (1948) and one of the... , Subirachs Josep Maria Subirachs Josep Maria Subirachs i Sitjar , is a Catalan sculptor and painter of the late 20th century. His best known work is probably the Passion Facade of the basilica of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona... , 8vo 8vo (design) 8vo is a London-based graphic design firm formed in 1985 by Simon Johnston, Mark Holt and Hamish Muir.-Designs for Durutti Column and Factory Records:8vo produced the artwork for many Factory Records records sleeves and promotional material... , Nigel Grierson 23 Envelope 23 Envelope was the name given to the graphic design partnership of graphic designer Vaughan Oliver and photographer/filmmaker Nigel Grierson from 1983-1988...
Eye No. 38 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=3	Vol. 10	Winter 2000	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Tenth Anniversary, Duchamp Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art... /Hamilton Richard Hamilton (artist) Richard William Hamilton, CH was a British painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the... , Reduction, Mau Bruce Mau Bruce Mau is a Canadian designer. Mau is the creative director of Bruce Mau Design, and the founder of the Institute without Boundaries.-Life and career:... , Self Expression/Promotion
Eye No. 39 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=5	Vol. 10	Spring 2001	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Graphic Thought Facility Graphic Thought Facility Graphic Thought Facility is a London-based graphic design agency.The studio was founded in 1990 by Royal College of Art graduates Paul Neale, Nigel Robinson and Andy Stevens... , Movie Titles, www.self, No. 17 Number Seventeen (design) Number Seventeen is the Manhattan-based graphic design studio formed by Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler. Besides print graphics, the studio also specializes in graphics for film and television. Their clients include Saturday Night Live, Jane Magazine . They were also responsible for creating the... , Envisaging Soundscapes
Eye No. 40 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=4	Vol. 10	Summer 2001	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... , Times Classic, Gerard Unger Gerard Unger Gerard Unger is a graphic and type designer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1963-67, and subsequently worked at Total Design, Prad and Joh. Enschedé. In 1975, he established himself as an independent developer... , Digital Type Decade, Why Helvetica Helvetica Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann.-Visual distinctive characteristics:Characteristics of this typeface are:lower case:square dot over the letter i.... ?
Eye No. 41 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=2	Vol. 11	Autumn 2001	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Wheel Charts, Mistakes, Graphic Hate, Inspiration, Neville Garrick Neville Garrick Neville Garrick is a Jamaican-born Los Angeles-based graphic artist, photographer, filmmaker, and writer.He is best known for creating the art work for many Bob Marley album covers. He has also worked with Burning Spear, Steel Pulse and many others... , Right On! Right On! Right On! is an American teen magazine. It is published by Dorchester Media in New York City, and it was a sister publication of Tiger Beat....
Eye No. 42 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=60	Vol. 11	Winter 2001	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Print & Paper, Day-Glo Mind Blow, Stephen Byram Stephen Byram Stephen Byram is a New York-based graphic designer. He was born in Oakland, California in 1952, studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, and moved to New York in 1979.... , Uncoated, Alienation Sells!
Eye No. 43 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=62	Vol. 11	Spring 2002	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Overprinting, Zuzana Licko Zuzana Licko Zuzana Licko is a typeface designer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.Licko came to the United States when she was a child along with her family... , Designing Heroes, The Shape of the Heart, Lolita Lolita Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by the author into Russian...
Eye No. 44 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=69	Vol. 11	Summer 2002	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Newspaper Newspaper A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a... Design, Joe Sacco Joe Sacco Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American comics artist and journalist. He achieved international fame through the 1996 American Book Award-winning Palestine, and his graphic novel on the Bosnian War, Safe Area Goražde.- Biography :... , Cute Culture, Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer (graphic designer) Herbert Spencer was a British designer, editor, writer, photographer and teacher, born in London on June 22, 1924, and died March 11, 2002 .... , New York Times
Eye No. 45 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=72	Vol. 12	Autumn 2002	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Chris Ware Chris Ware Franklin Christenson Ware , is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, widely known for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in the Chicago area, Illinois... , OpenType OpenType OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on its predecessor TrueType, retaining TrueType's basic structure and adding many intricate data structures for prescribing typographic behavior... , Jean-François Porchez Jean-François Porchez Jean François Porchez is a French type designer. He was president of ATypI , the leading organisation of type designers from 2004 to 2007. He is probably best-known for releasing the new typefaces for Le Monde, the French evening newspaper in 1994... , Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state... , J. Abbott Miller J. Abbott Miller J. Abbott Miller or Abbott Miller was born in Indiana and studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. Miller is a graphic designer and writer. He is a partner in the New York office of the design firm Pentagram. He edits 2wice magazine...
Eye No. 46 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=77	Vol. 12	Winter 2002	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Australian Graphic Design, Inkahoots, Political Posters, Mambo Mambo Graphics Mambo is an Australian surf and street clothing brand. It was launched in 1984, by and business partner, Andrew Rich in the Sydney suburb of Alexandria.- Early Days :... , Stephen Banham Stephen Banham Stephen Banham is an Australian typographer, writer, lecturer and founder of Letterbox, a typographic studio.Banham was born in Melbourne in 1968. He completed a BA in Visual Communication at RMIT University from 1986–88. In 2003 he completed a Master of Design in design research from RMIT...
Eye No. 47 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=85	Vol. 12	Spring 2003	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Cool Stuff, Hoofdletters Hoofdletters, Tweeling- en Meerlingdruk Hoofdletters, Tweeling- en Meerlingdruk was a Dutch book published in 1958. In the book, author Dr. George van den Bergh made several propositions for a more economical arrangement of type in books. The book was featured in Herbert Spencer's Typographica in and Eye magazine... , Lists, Overprinting, Maira Kalman Maira Kalman Maira Kalman, born in 1949, is an American illustrator, author, artist, and designer. Born in Tel Aviv, Kalman came to New York City with her family at age 4. She attended the High School of Music and Art, now LaGuardia High School....
Eye No. 48 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=87	Vol. 12	Summer 2003	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Retro-Sexism, Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing... ’s Face, Robert Crumb Robert Crumb Robert Dennis Crumb —known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded... , Racist Mexican Advertising, David King
Eye No. 49 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=71	Vol. 13	Autumn 2003	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Laptop Aesthetics, Angela Lorenz, Conference Madness, Mushroom Clouds
Eye No. 50 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=98	Vol. 13	Winter 2003	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Typography, Frantisek Storm, Abbar, Marlene McCarty, Comics Comics Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in... & Art, Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author...
Eye No. 51 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=103	Vol. 13	Spring 2004	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Michael Light, Photography Books, Walter Pamminger, Palestinian Posters, Stefan Lorant
Eye No. 52 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=110	Vol. 13	Summer 2004	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Moire, Ladybird Books Ladybird Books Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company, trading as a stand-alone imprint within the Penguin Group of companies. The Ladybird imprint publishes mass-market children's books.-History:... , Safety Posters, Health Campaigns, Design in India, Legibility
Eye No. 53 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=116	Vol. 14	Autumn 2004	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Brand Brand The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers."... Madness, Identities for Sealand Principality of Sealand The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognized entity, located on HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea 10 km off the coast of Suffolk, England, United Kingdom .... & Liechtenstein Liechtenstein The Principality of Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine country in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. Its area is just over , and it has an estimated population of 35,000. Its capital is Vaduz. The biggest town is Schaan... , Cal Schenkel Cal Schenkel Cal Schenkel is an artist specialising in album cover design. He was the main visual collaborator for Frank Zappa and was responsible for the art and graphic design of many of Zappa's most well-known album covers. Schenkel's work is iconic and distinctive in style; a forerunner of punk art and... , Open, Romek Marber Romek Marber Romek Marber was a Polish freelance designer noted for his work with Penguin Books.Marber arrived in Britain in 1946; in 1961, impressed by Marber’s covers for The Economist, Germano Facetti commissioned Marber to design covers for Simeon Potter's Our Language and Language in the Modern World...
Eye No. 54 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=119	Vol. 14	Winter 2004	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Jonathan Hoefler Jonathan Hoefler Jonathan Hoefler is an American typeface designer. Hoefler founded Hoefler & Frere-Jones , a type foundry in New York that Hoefler shares with fellow type designer Tobias Frere-Jones.Hoefler has designed original typefaces for Rolling Stone Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine,... & Tobias Frere-Jones Tobias Frere-Jones Tobias Frere-Jones is a prolific type designer who works in New York City with fellow type designer Jonathan Hoefler at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, a type foundry in lower Manhattan... , Berlin, Excoffon Roger Excoffon Roger Excoffon , French typeface designer and graphic designer.Excoffon was born in Marseilles, studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence, and after, moved to Paris to apprentice in a print shop. In 1947 he formed his own advertising agency and concurrently became design director of a small... ’s Autograph, Lisbon, Monty Python Monty Python Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...
Eye No. 55 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=117	Vol. 14	Spring 2005	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Quantum Publishing	Paul Davis, Found Photography Found photography Found photography is a genre of photography and/or visual art based on the recovery of lost, unclaimed, or discarded photographs... , Loving the Internet Internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide... , The Power of Caricature Caricature A caricature is a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.Caricatures can be... , Copyleft Copyleft Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...
Eye No. 56 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=123	Vol. 14	Summer 2005	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Haymarket	Ishihara’s Vision Tests, Mexico 68, Brazilian Tags, GDR “Paradise”, Mumbai’s Dabbawallas
Eye No. 57 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=124	Vol. 15	Autumn 2005	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Haymarket	Science & Design, Tokyo TDC, Letterpress Letterpress printing Letterpress printing is relief printing of text and image using a press with a "type-high bed" printing press and movable type, in which a reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image... , Alan Aldridge Alan Aldridge Alan Aldridge is an English artist, graphic designer and illustrator.-Personal life:Born in 1943 in east London, he currently resides in Los Angeles... & The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr... , Books for Children
Eye No. 58 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=126	Vol. 15	Winter 2005	John L. Walters	Nick Bell	Haymarket	The Decriminalisation of Ornament Ornament (architecture) In architecture and decorative art, ornament is a decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in decorative art are excluded from the term; most ornament does not include human figures, and if present they... , Toffe, Custom Type in Sheffield, George Hardie, Blickfang
Eye No. 59 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=130	Vol. 15	Spring 2006	John L. Walters	Simon Esterson	Haymarket	Relational Aesthetics, Richard Hollis, Unsung Type Heroes, Cyrus Highsmith, Ads for Lads
Eye No. 60 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=131	Vol. 15	Summer 2006	John L. Walters	Simon Esterson	Haymarket	Alex McDowell Alex McDowell Alex McDowell, RDI is British production designer and film producer.McDowell was born in Borneo to parents of English origin. He wanted to become a painter and studied at the Central School of Art in London. He founded Rocking Russian Design in 1978 and started his career designing album covers... , Motion Graphics, Jeff Scher, Penrose, Scriptographer
Eye No. 61 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=140	Vol. 16	Autumn 2006	John L. Walters	Simon Esterson	Haymarket	Exhibition Design, Magazine Art Direction, Jop van Bennekom, Bazooka, MySpace MySpace Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
Eye No. 62 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=134	Vol. 16	Winter 2006	John L. Walters	Simon Esterson	Haymarket	Eric Olson & Process, Nazi Nazism Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany... Type, Swash Caps, Motif Magazine, Character Design
Eye No. 63 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=143	Vol. 16	Spring 2007	John L. Walters	Simon Esterson	Haymarket	Creative Music Design, Good Magazine, Modernist Argentina, Ethics Ethics Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:... , Surrealism Surrealism Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.... and Graphics
Eye No. 64 http://www.eyemagazine.com/issue.php?id=150	Vol. 16	Summer 2007	John L. Walters	Simon Esterson	Haymarket	Typography Special, Andrea Tinnes, Decodeunicode, Theo Ballmer, Le Gun
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