Eye, Issue 070, Winter 2008

Features:
The Word on the street by Andrew Robertson
Asked to make a graphic intervention for a Lisbon chapel turned gallery, design studio R2 turned to everyday irreverences
The last picture showst by Mike Kippenhan
Magic box: craft and the computert by David Crow
Long undervalued as a poor relation of art and design, craft is central once more. Essay by David Crow
Make it realt by Steve Hare
Forget fancy effects – ‘authenticity’ may be the most effective way to capture an audience
Buying into the Norm cosmost by Liz Farrelly
The Swiss practice’s typefaces are quirky, oddly popular, and deceptively simple – also a critical response to neutrality
Power of twot by John L. Walters
Clients who hire the company behind Five’s new identity always work directly with the main men
Foot Printst by Barney Cox
Why do we assume that online publishing is greener than print and paper?
Play and playbillt by Richard Hollis
Theatre programmes present designers with a challenge that can be turned into a dramatic opportunity
Quiet spirit of joyt by Alan Powers
By championing pattern-making, art and ephemera, the Curwen Press brought a new ‘Comfy Modernism’ to commercial printing
Step and repeatt by John L. Walters
Richard Rhys’s new foundry, which sells original patterns by designers and artists, gives a new twist to a timeless concept
It’s about timet by Anthony Oliver
From a technical viewpoint, digital photographic images can be every bit as good as film. The difference is in the way we think about them
Reviews:
Reasons To Be Cheerful: The Life and Work of Barney Bubbles
On Purpose: Design Concepts
Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970
Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design
Alan Aldridge: The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Illustration: A Visual History
Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks 1900-1974
N. P. de Koo 1881-1960: Grafisch Vormgever en Interieurarchitect
London Transport Posters: A Century of Art and Design
The Mighty Book of Boosh
For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis
Calma, The Art of Stephan Doitschinoff
Gateways: An International Exhibition of Book Covers, Portugal
Cut & Paste: European Photomontage 1920-1945