Archive for category: Graphic design

Graphic design, mishmashed    (2010.03.18)

Not only is Graphic Design, Referenced disorganized, it’s barely written in English sometimes. (But love the hand-sketched illos)

‘Eye’ visits Berlin, unnoticed    (2010.02.05)

Eye’s “Berlin special” is more like a series of blog posts, which, oddly, they also published

Designers as functional illiterates    (2010.01.22)

Natalia Ilyin: ‘The reason that designers have only a feeble grip on that chair at the table is not because design is not respected, it is because most designers cannot write’

Shitty design attracts shitty content    (2009.12.29)

David Galbraith: Facebook is “similar to Vimeo [in that] the beauty of the application has influenced the content”

‘Command X’    (2009.12.29)

Michael Bierut again wows ’em hosting the “Command X” game show. Also! Closeted gay designers and porn. Yes

Somebody answer my question, please    (2009.11.18)

Did gay designer Leo Obstbaum “die suddenly,” i.e., kill himself?

Jessica Jenkins’ tin eye    (2009.10.24)

Only Eye would publish a cultural interpretation of modern typography in which the only font identified by name isn’t even used in any of the samples

Title as punchline    (2009.09.13)

When you name your book Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field, isn’t that conceding defeat right there? (Is “the field” really where you’re gonna find “theory”?)