Archive for category: Graphic design

Everyone’s a critic of book covers    (2011.09.18)

How the Globe’s nonexpert critiques two business-book covers

Margaret Thatcher, design critic    (2011.09.16)

Did Margaret Thatcher really cover up John Sorrell’s “ethnic” British Airways tailfins on sight?

Toronto mediocrity meets federal-government mediocrity    (2011.09.15)

The slapdash signs at the downtown Toronto passport office. To paraphrase Morrissey: “Why?”

The logo its designers are ashamed of    (2011.09.13)

Who designed the new Winnipeg Jets logo, and why does nobody really want to answer that question?

Minimalist movie posters    (2011.09.07)

Why else are there so many minimalist film posters? They work great in online thumbnails

Steven Heller, sycophant    (2011.07.28)

Eye’s lead writer “interviews” its editor for the blog of a rival publication

‘Eye’ 78 & 79    (2011.07.26)

Winter 2010 and Spring 2011. Did you know Ontario Hydro was “state-owned”?

Swash and blue tile    (2011.07.22)

New work by Pentagram

8I    (2011.07.10)

Nobody does simple two-tone aircraft exteriors like Boeing