Eye N° 82 Vol. 21 (2012)

10 Critique: Regeneration X
Savage Messiah brings new urgency to an updated punk aesthetic.
By Rick Poynor

12 Reputations: Commercial Type, Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz
“There has been typography on the Web for its entire existence, because there are words, and where there are words there is typography…”

24 The graphic power of knowledge
Eight examples of information designs that made a difference.
Copernicus’s diagram of the planets, 24
The slave ship Brookes, 26
Elements of Euclid, 28
Florence Nightingale’s Crimean war mortality diagram, 29
Will Burtin, infodesign pioneer, 30
Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas, 32
Peter Sullivan’s newspaper war visuals, 36
Time magazine infographics by Nigel Holmes, 37

38 You are here
Information designers are ideally placed to make the most of the new digital era.
By Max Gadney

40 Show and tell
James Mollison’s photographs invite the viewer to look beyond face values.
By Karla Hammer

48 Flights of fancy
Si Scott’s 3D paper insects are taking his work in new directions
By Liz Farrelly

54 The new breed
Alex Bec and Will Hudson, of It´s Nice That, unveil INT Works, which has grown directly from their roles as editors and curators.
By Mike Dempsey

60 Naked words
In an age of visual overkill, the puely typographic book cover persist
By Jason Godfrey

72 Seven types of design enquiry
Graphic design’s quest for self-understanding takes many forms
By John O’Reilly

74 Old School Layout
Every fortnight, art director Tony Rushton and editor Ian Hislop lay out Private Eye in a way that has hardly changed in 50 years

82 Shock tactics
America’s ‘altweeklies’ are a hotbed of zero budget, attention grabbing cover art direction
By Norbert Newman

94 Education: Lessons from a abandoned fish factory
Anne Odling-Smee describes a project that showed her MA students at Central Saint Martins how design can work in the “real world”

96 Reviews
Saul Bass biography; Steven McCarthy on Graphic Design: Now in Production; Type Navigator; Typo London; Ootje Oxenaar, Frank Reade; London Buildings; Polish Cold War Neon; J.J. Boehnert on Visual Complexity; Robert Hanks on | Nelson; Own Label; Making Great Illustration; Design Research Unit 1942-72

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