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Opinion:
Chewing it over: issues of style and content
Critical path, Design history, Magazines, Agenda, Daniel Nadel
Agenda In the spring issue of Eye (no. 47 vol. 12) I wrote a particularly…
Evolutionary tales by Rick Poynor
A new novel uses the possibilities of visual prose to tackle a timely subject. Critique by Rick Poynor
Women and the media: dignity and decency? Equality by Deborah Burnstone
The European Commission takes steps to ban sexist imagery in the media
Editorial Eye 49 by John L. Walters
There is a moment in Adrian Shaughnessy’s profile of Angela Lorenz where the latter talks…
Features:
Conference madness by Alice Twemlow
It’s a messy hybrid of live chat show, summer camp, theatre and rock’n’roll
Machin Definitive UK postage stamps by Paul Neale
Cock-ups appreciated by Paul Neale, by Thought Facility
Malcolm, Peter … and Keith by Rick Poynor
The British New Wave was born at a boys’ school near Manchester
Theory in practice by Michael Worthington
Gerstner’s curious compendium is a dense brick of knowledge
‘Femicide’ posters by Daoud Sarhandi
300 murders near the Ciudad Juárez sweatshops provoke a graphic ‘shout’
A terrible beauty by Steven Heller
The atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud has become the logo of annihilation
Angela Lorenz by Adrian Shaughnessy
A Berliner’s work finds parallels between laptop music and design. By Adrian Shaughnessy
Laptop aesthetics by Adrian Shaughnessy
A crackly, digital approach informs one of three current design trends.
Information visualisation by Nico Macdonald
Modern-day map-making may be a way out of Web design’s stasis
Street signs by Adam Deschamps
The Burmese town of Pyay has government slogans on every lamppost
Reviews:
Yes Yes Y’all, An Oral History of Hip-Hop’s First Decade
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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.