Eye, Issue 020, Spring 1996

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Opinion:
Go in at the top and redefine the project – Monitor, Nico Macdonald
What is the graphic designer’s role in production for the internet and how are studios changing?
Editorial Eye 20 – Editorial, Rick Poynor
Since the beginning of graphic design there have been graphic authors. Jan Tschichold, whose 192…
Features:
Reputations: Tibor Kalman by Moira Cullen
Moira Cullen interviews Tibor Kalman
Gastrotypographicalassemblage by Lou Dorfsman’s mural for CBS’s cafeteria brought expressive typography to enviromental scale
Dreams that money can buy
The seamless fantasies devised by designers play a crucial role in the process of selling fashion
Form follows attitude by Ursula Held
Lars Muller’s dissatisfaction with design’s service role led him to set up his own publishing house
The designer as author by Michael Rock
Graphic authorship is taken for granted by many design theorists and it is gaining ground within practice, too. But the idea has received little sustained examination. What does it mean and what is really possible?
Darkness visible by Steven Heller
Amy Guip reconciles commercial image-making with a need to explore more personal themes
Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities by Rick Poynor
As designer, writer and educator, Jeffery Keedy is a committed proponent of postmodernism
Concrete poems just are by Peter Mayer
In the digital 1990s, the innovations of concrete poetry are starting to make a new kind of sense
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Fuse ’95

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Eye, Issue 020, Spring 1996
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Parallel Public is a new publication by Sara Blaylock, published by MIT Press. The book documents the East German artists pioneering work that made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life.
The transformation of Radio Free Berlin's publicity from dark and provincial to striking and imaginative. Cultural announcements and radio programs designed by Hans Förtsch, Sigrid von Baumgarten, and Reinhart Braun
Simon Dixon is the co-founder of DixonBaxi and has been at the forefront of exceptional design from the start of his carreer. This year, DixonBaxi, celebrated twenty years in business, and their team of forty work with clients such as WWE, MAX, Premier League, Channel 4 and Netflix.
I have always loved the design work created for Olivetti. The colourful midcentury designs by Italian designer Giovanni Pintori, the minimal typographic poster by Swiss designer Walter Ballmer and my personal favourite the 1959 poster for Olivetti designed by Herbert Bayer. I recently found out Triest Verlag released a new book, Visual identity and branding at Olivetti which contains further work by Xanti Schawinsky, Renato Zveteremich, Ettore Sottsass, Hans von Klier, Egidio Bonfante and Walter Ballmer.