eye the international review
of graphic design
 
 
 

eye no. 25 vol.7 summer 1997

Editorial Learning to read and write images Merging more and more with a 'metadisciplinary' visual culture, the role of graphic design is changing profoundly

Essay The aesthetics of transience With computers as the means for limitless manipulations of signs, designers now exalt subjectivity and impermanence

Report Stop worrying and learn to love the Web Designers overcome their initial contempt for a low-resolution  medium to bring clarity to the World Wide Web

review Faces on the edge: type in the digital age Steven Heller and Anne Fink Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997

 

eye no.26 vol.7 autumn 1997

Editorial The oldness of new Does graphic design need redefinition? Maybe, but the profession's rich visual tradition should not be discarded

Essay The diaphanous machine Designers can bring visual clarity and consistency to Web interfaces and find new ways to organise navigation

Profile Keep it simple Mieke Gerritzen brings her visual language of graphic  emblems and clear-cut lines, colours and type to the Web

 

eye no.27 vol.7 spring 1998

Editorial A rhetoric of images To acquire the status of serious conveyors of ideas, images  still have to overcome a “class struggle” with verbal language

review Sink or swim in the meltingpot Jambalaya: The Design of Culture Meets the Culture of Design Seventh AIGA National Design Conference 13-16 November 1997, New Orleans

review A Primer With Links Missing Design Literacy, Understanding Graphic Design Stephen Heller and Karen Pomeroy Allworth Press New York, 1997

 

eye no.28 vol.7 summer 1998

Editorial Rescue meaning To communicate more than mere messages for a client, designers must adopt an editorial point of view

Profile: Post Tool Serious doodling Working in the crash-prone pre-history of multimedia, Post Tool  has a brand of graphic design that is closer to television

review Click on that! Interface Culture: How new technology transforms the way  we create and communicate Steven Johnson San Francisco: Harper Edge, 1997

 

eye no.29 vol.8 autumn 1998

Editorial Push and pull Graphic design, advertising and art mutually attract and  reject each other in their quest for cultural significance

Critique Fuzzy logic for furry animals Reason and sense challenged the lure of high-tech at the San  Francisco FUSE'98 conference, but technology won the day

Overview Commercial Art Oliviero Toscani’s confrontational art direction hijacks  reality to provoke a variety of gut reactions and critiques.

 

eye no.30 vol.8 winter 1998

Editorial Trial & error If designers want the audience to interact, then design is  transformed into making the problem-solving playable

 

eye no.31 vol.8 spring 1999

Editorial Sampling the modern inheritance Current critiques of Modernism often fail to acknowledge the  movement’s close linking of style, structure and content

Interface What your see is what you think A student competition resulted in hybrids of browser and  search engine that redraw the fundamentals of ‘surfing the web’

Review 5th Doors of Perception Conference on 'Play', Amsterdam, november 1998

 

eye no.32 vol.8 summer 1999

Editorial Style = content Is there any use in overturning the existing hierarchies  between verbal and visual form?

Reputations Piet Schreuders "The canon is irrelevant and transient. If you fight the  canon you become a product of its system" Interviewed by Max Bruinsma and Chris Vermaas

 

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