Eye, Issue 042, Winter 2001

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Opinion:
Postcards from the edge – Graphic design, Visual culture, Rick Poynor
Inspiration – Typography, Wolfgang Weingart
The ruins of Baalbek in the Lebanon
Editorial Eye 42. – John L. Walters
The physical materials that make up a magazine are straightforward and predictable: there is no need…
Features:
We hardly knew you by Stefan Sagmeister, Peter Hall
Street-corner merchandising tries to remember the twin towers
Detach, detourne and consume by David Crowley
Alienation sells! The seductive flatness of Situationist aesthetics
Information imagined by Andrew Robertson
H2G2 animations anticipated the look and feel of future computers
Day-Glo mind blow by Julia Bigham
Psychedelia hit late 1960s London in an explosion of silk-screen colour
Stephen Byram: art & design by John L. Walters
A New Yorker opts for content, tactility and the sound of surprise
Truth lies in the surface by Adrian Shaughnessy
You can feel it. The unimpeachable authenticity of uncoated board
Pulp artefacts by Fay Sweet
When paper mills target the design business, what should they print?

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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.
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
Projekt 26 is a fantastic online store dedicated to vintage Polish posters, as well as operating online, both Harriet and Sylwia also run poster markets, social accounts full of the vibrant works and have a radiating passion and knowledge of the subject.

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Walter Ballmer was a Swiss graphic designer born in Liestal, Switzerland in 1923. He worked across various design disciplines including advertising design, packaging, typography and exhibition design.