Eye, Issue 072, Summer 2009

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Content includes:
Opinion:
Bad timing by Rick Poynor
In a new Obama-led world order, Omega’s lust for luxury seems as misplaced as a licence to kill. Critique by Rick Poynor
Cult of the squiggly by Steven Heller
An alphabetical catwalk – Education, Tania Prill
Scrapbook from China – Education, Elizabeth Resnick
Features:
Reputations: Marian Bantjes by John L. Walters
Sampling the Modern
Body type by Keith Miller
Schism and reunification by Adrian Shaughnessy
Artwork and play by Robert Hanks
Storytelling giant by Steven Heller
Fired up and hired
Drawn into conversation by Steve Hare
The orderly chaos of James Joyce by John L. Walters
Reviews:
Good Design, Good Business: Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising by Geigy, 1940-1970
Subway Art: 25th Anniversary Edition

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Eye, Issue 072, Summer 2009
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Joseph Binder established his studio, Wiener Graphik, in Vienna. One of the first clients was the City of Vienna’s Music and Theater Festival, followed by many other posters and logos for clients in Austria and beyond.

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A fantastic example of Swiss design for brand systems is the brand and advertising by Siegfried Odermatt commissioned by Grammo Studio in Zurich.
Founded in 2015, Triest Verlag für Architektur, Design und Typografie have published notable works on graphic design history, including biographies of Othmar Motter, studies on Eugen Gomringer’s typography and poetry, Ernst Keller’s teachings. Thier latest book The Birth of a Style, focuses on the influence of the Basel Educational Model on the evolution of Swiss graphic design into the renowned international style.
A review of the memorial exhibition of Edward McKnight Kauffer at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1955 by F.H.K. Hernion