Eye Magazine

              13 March 2019
          
Hacking GutenbergJohn L. Walters

	Eye’s Type Tuesday about 21st-Century letterpress featured Double Dagger, The Counter Press and Erik Spiekermann. A splendid time was had by all

	Erik Spiekermann opened his talk at Type Tuesday on 5 March 2019 with some ruminations on the subject of craft: ‘Craft, skill, trade, vocation: The human impulse to make something for its own sake, to do it as well as you can,’ writes John L. Walters. 

              8 March 2019
          
Figures that don’t add upCatherine Griffiths

	In Aotearoa New Zealand, Designers Speak (Up) is challenging the male-dominated awards system. By Catherine Griffiths

	A new campaign aims to address the gender imbalance in New Zealand design, writes Catherine Griffiths. For the past two decades, the Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ) has awarded its top accolade, the Black Pin, 43 times: 40 men, 3 women.

              22 February 2019
          
Gentle reminder Eye editors

	Three books – all crowd-funded – from Spitalfields Life, offer complementary, clear-eyed observations of the history of London’s East End

	The anonymous ‘Gentle Author’, best known for his popular daily blog Spitalfields Life, has built up an impressive small publishing ‘empire’ with crowd-funded books that largely deal with stories and images from the history of London’s East End.

              15 February 2019
          
(Typographic) Noted #90 the editors

	The 65th annual Type Directors Club competition, Patrick Thomas’s revised Protest Stencil Toolkit, the Whitney’s ‘programmed’ typeface and Studio Dumbar’s variable type City in Motion posters

	Here is a selection of type-related things – recently announced type winners, a revised edition of a type, a selection of variable type posters, and an exhibition that looks at works of art based on instructions.

              5 February 2019
          
Books received #36 Eye editors

      James Victore’s Feck Perfuction; Observe, Collect, Draw!; Brand By Hand; How To Do Great Work Without Being an Asshole
    
	Here is a collection of self-help and ‘memoir-adjacent’ titles – all written by designers – that caught our attention in recent weeks.

              18 January 2019
          
(Typographic) Noted #89 Eye editors

      Raymond, Fixture, Typeset in the Future, Heldane and Letterform Archive
    
	Here is a selection of type-related things – type specimens, new releases, a type book and a newly digitised archive – that caught our attention in recent weeks.

              10 January 2019
          
Eye on Campus Eye editors

	The University of Lincoln’s bulk subscription to Eye provides students with opportunities to relish the tactility of print – with a selfie to prove it

	Several years ago, Barrie Tullett, graphic design programme leader at University of Lincoln, decided that his students should read Eye magazine.

              2 January 2019
          
Books received #35 Eye editors

	Jonny Hannah’s Fast Cars and Ukeleles; Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Colour; Sébastian Morlighem’s Essaime; and The Eye

	Here is a selection of books that caught our attention in the dog days of 2019.

              16 December 2018
          
Hold your breath …Janet South

      An exhibition at London’s Japan House explores the materiality of paper
    
	‘Takeo Paper Show: Subtle’ is a touring exhibition curated by graphic designer Kenya Hara, writes Janet South.

              11 December 2018
          
To infinity and beyondKevin J. Hunt

      Kevin J. Hunt reviews Paul Jackson’s accessible new book about pattern-making
    
	Paul Jackson, an origami artist and design teacher, has created a highly accessible guide to making repeat patterns that encourages playfulness, adaptation, experimentation and vital rule-breaking, writes Kevin J. Hunt.