Eye N°86 (2013)

8 Critique: Incisive vision
Eduardo Paolozzi’s as a collagist have been neglected by the worlds of both art and design.
By Rick Poynor

10 Reputations: Tony Brook
‘What other profession do you end up in where you learn so much about other people’s businesses that in graphic design? It´s remarkable. Clients will tell you everything’

30 Quiet man of letters
Alan Bartram brought a perceptive eye to alphabetic detail in public spaces. Catherine Dixon pays tribute to the co-author of An Atlas of Typerforms

38 A tradition with breaks
Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and rediscovering their history
By Eric Kindel

56 Painted thrills and spills
Fred Fowle (1914-83) was the UK’s foremost fairground artist. His go-faster graphics and futuristic lettering live on – in museums and working steam fairs
By Caroline Roberts

68 Type specific
TDC hails the wider world of empathetic wine labels, typographic IDs and retro stationery

72 Vapour trails
Steampunk’s florid industrial nostalgia might yet be the defining aesthetic of our time
By John Coulthart

78 Rub-down revolution
A generation before home computers, Letraset’s dry transfer lettering made desktop typography possible – and gave a small group of type designers new insights into letterform construction through the art of stencil-cutting.
By Jane Lamacraft

94 Education: The accessible elite
Linda Kwon on AGI Open, a design conference that aims to fight the ‘velvet rope syndrome’

96 Reviews
Dynamic Identities; Hello World; Sounding the Body Electric; Memory Palace; Kawaii!; Sun Ra; Brooklyn Babylon; Power to the People, Dekho

106 We made this: A life in artefacts
Dixonary is a collaboration between author and product designer Tom Dixon, publisher Robert Violette and Graphic Desginer Matt Willey.

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 8 de noviembre de 2013 - 08:22 | Actualizado: 8 de noviembre de 2013 - 08:26 | PDF