Eye, Issue 080, Summer 2011

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Content includes:
Opinion:
Dark Magus by Rick Poynor
Places need signs – Monitor, Rob Waller
Features:
Reputations: Robin Kinross by Rick Poynor
Taking care of business by Simon Esterson
Keepers of the flame by Steven Heller
Credits where due by Anne-Marie Conway
Out of hand by David Crowley
Different strokes by Jonathan Parker
Tools of the trade by David Barringer
Dreams can come true by Johnny Hardstaff
Crashing and burning by Jim Northover
Change through making by Jack Schulze, Timo Arnall
Ordinary values by Alice Twemlow
Lost in flatlands by Gerry Leonidas
Out of the darkroom and into the light by Sue Steward
Tangible digital (intro) by Tom Hartshorn
Tangible digital (case studies) by John Ridpath
10,000 one offs by John L. Walters
Beyond words by Noel Douglas
Reviews:
Letter Fountain [on Printing Types]
Symbol
Close Eyes to Exit
Beauty Is in the Street: A Visual Record of the May ’68 Paris Uprising
Scripts
Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey: catalogue
Hitler Blind – Stalin Lahm [Hitler Blind – Stalin Lame]
Ballet
Cartographies of Time
General Idea
A Symbol for the Festival: Abram Games and the Festival of Britain
Graphic Design: History in the Making

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