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Crashing through the type. Time magazine infographics by Nigel Holmes, 1970s – infodesign in Eye 82 25 Jul 2012 | 01:00 am
It was good luck, really, writes Nigel Holmes. Walter Bernard, Time’s art director, was looking for someone to do the magazine’s charts and diagrams when I walked into his New York office in September...
Type Tuesday. Presstival: a late summer festival for British print and type enthusiasts 24 Jul 2012 | 07:03 pm
We like the sound of ‘Presstival’, otherwise known as the annual open day of the Whittington Press, which takes place on Saturday 1 September this year. The tiny village of Whittington, five miles eas...
Noted #40. Typecache, marginal Brazil, mags with letters, Malick Sidibé’s studio 23 Jul 2012 | 12:45 am
Here are a few more links that caught our attention in recent days. Typecache.com is an online index of type foundries and type designers around the world, organised in a pleasing (and largely monoch...
Gays, junkies & Africans: who cares? The international challenges of communicating AIDS awareness 20 Jul 2012 | 11:52 pm
Contemporary consumer society has particular features that present communication challenges for the social service sector, writes Lynne Ciochetto. Maintaining awareness about AIDS and promoting safe ...
Training the big guns. Peter Sullivan’s newspaper war visuals, 1970s & 80s – from Eye 82 18 Jul 2012 | 03:23 pm
Peter Sullivan worked at The Sunday Times in the 1970s and 80s, an era when the newspaper innovated in every department from editorial design and photography to investigative journalism, writes Max Ga...
Thought for food. Do graphic designers have an appetite for the challenges of food design? 16 Jul 2012 | 11:07 pm
The ‘International Conference on Designing Food and Designing for Food’ was a two-day event, held at London Metropolitan University last month, writes Sarah Snaith. Organised by Francesca Zampollo, a...
Noted #39. Olympic graphics watch – pictograms, logos & signs that keep the flame alive 13 Jul 2012 | 08:52 pm
Here are a few reflections on Olympics graphics that caught our attention. More to come – please send us your sightings via Flickr and Twitter. One Look to rule them all. And 250,000 items of design....
Big business, big world. Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas, 1953 – infodesign in Eye 82 11 Jul 2012 | 06:00 pm
Long before multinational corporations discovered the usefulness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in ameliorating a public relations disaster, companies such as the Container Corporation of Am...
Type Tuesday: Naked words. Type-only book covers: austere, functional … or shouting out loud 10 Jul 2012 | 06:41 pm
Once upon a time, book jackets were almost all pure typographic compositions: these were the books one could not judge by their covers, writes Jason Godfrey in ‘Naked words’, Eye 82. The tradition co...
Every which way. Abbott Miller’s iPad app gives a new framework to contemporary dance 9 Jul 2012 | 03:00 pm
Fifth Wall, an iPad app designed by Abbott Miller for 2wice Arts Foundation, presents an enticing new platform for the performing arts, writes Sarah Snaith. Choreographer and contemporary dancer Jona...
