Archive for category: Graphic design

Precious, bankable Craig Mod    (2012.12.14)

Flowery, grandiloquent Craig Mod and developer-autistic Marco Arment are being disingenuous when they claim not to have defined a new publishing style. They have – and, after the manner of Butt and FANTASTIC MAN, it will now be copied

‘Eye’ 82    (2012.05.23)

Reading this issue of Eye, I conclude that Christian Schwartz could really use a fun night out at the Steamworks

‘Design Is a Job’    (2012.04.12)

A designer tells a client why his designs say what the client means. Young designers need Monteiro’s Design Is a Job to learn how to do that. Design Is a Job needed an editor

‘Eye’ 81    (2011.12.29)

Rick Poynor disingenuously states that graphic-design history picks winners and losers. He’s one of the pickers

Patients dying of AIDS soon to live in glass house    (2011.11.07)

Casey House is about to expand its heritage building with an assemblage of see-through glass cuboids. What could possibly go wrong for its clientele, people dying of AIDS?

Who designed the Charter?    (2011.11.04)

Bob Herrera or George Baynes

Masculine or feminine type?    (2011.10.25)

Original and revised posters for Drive

Björn Samborg Blanche    (2011.10.17)

Which Björn Borg is faker?

‘Eye’ 80: The doll’s-house effect    (2011.10.03)

Issue 80 of Eye is riven with structural defects and contradictions