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Reputations: Wolfgang Weingart by Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin
‘My work is like a quarry. People see a stone they like, appropriate it and work it until there’s nothing left.’ Eye talks to the father of New Wave typography.
The Painted Word by Andrzej Klimowski
While some designers rush for their keyboards, Henryk Tomaszewski prefers to create his posters as he always has — with a paintbrush
Guerrilla graphics by Steven Heller
Design has the power to effect change. Now it must develop a social conscience
Mondo magazines by William Owen
Some of the sharpest and most influential graphic design ideas come from the new magazines. Eye thumbs the pages of the international press and takes a close look at three of the most consistently creative titles: i-D, Interview, and Beach Culture
Cultural Identities by Margo Rouard-Snowman
With the enormous number of new museums comes a need for clear graphic identity
Bj by Katy Homans
Robert Brownjohn wanted to eliminate the boundaries between experience and design. In an explosively short career of remarkable promise, he pushed graphics, advertising and film to their conceptual limits
Typo Photo by Julia Thrift
London’s most progressive designers are working with a small group of photographers highly sympathetic to their aims
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The 37th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition
Philippe Apeloig, graphiste
Dutch Best Book Designs
Festival d’Affiches de Chaumont
Japanese Graphic Design
Jazz Graphics
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Eye, Issue 004, Summer 1991
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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.