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eye contents no.32 vol.8 summer 1999 cover
2 Editorial
Style is content
Is there any use in overturning the existing hierarchies between verbal and visual form?
Max Bruinsma6 Obituaries
Tibor Kalman 1949 - 1999 | P.Scott Makela 1960 - 1999
In a devastating week in May, American graphic design lost both Tibor Kalman and P.Scott Makela, two of its boldest, most original and celebrated designers
Rick Poynor8 Agenda
Words Fail Us
Serious discussion of graphic design are still handicapped by a limited lexicon
Ian Noble / Russ Bestley10 Reputations
Piet Schreuders
"The canon is irrelevant and transient. If you fight the canon you become a product of its system"
Interview by Max Bruinsma and Chris Vermaas26 Portfolio
Mr Roughcut
or: how graphic designer Pablo Ferro learned to split the screen, cut the crap and tell the story (in the time it took to run the titles)
Steve Heller34 Essay
E pluribus unum (my typographies 2)
An inquiry into myriad associations originating from this most abundantly occuring symbol in our writing: that fifth sign of our Roman ABC
Paul Elliman40 Archive: Imaginary Cities (1971)
The designer as architect
When Donald Mall made his book about Italian architect Paolo Solieri, he uncannily projected a vision og 1990's typography in its most radical form
Rick Poynor44 Profile
Dismantling the Basel principle
The freewheeling global agenda of Müller+Hess both destroys and revives the typographic traditions of their home town
Emily King52 Visual Essay
The impossibility of neutrality
Seclusion is not an option in a global culture where information, money and images move mountains and ignore boundaries
Müller+Hess56 Project
Script, type, data
In the Wiener Ausgabe, Michael Nedo translated Wittgenstein's wide-ranging and intertwined philosophical remarks into typographic form
Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin64 Project
Public Works
For the renovations at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Pierre Bernard devised a temporary system of signs and type to be hoisted high and crossed out
Ursula Held66 history
Revolutionary language
Working in the UK and Portugal, Robin Fior has forged a sharp, critical approach informed by a sense of freedom and radical political commitment
Richard Hollis81 Critique
Resurrected as chick revolutionary
After a millennium or two of powerfull religious images the Church may be loosing its grip.
Rick Poynor82 Reviews
Animated and entertaining: AIGA conference on design for film & TV in New York; Vertigo in Glassgow; Chris Marker's Immemory on CD-ROM; Culture Wars - 'Dumbing down' and the elite that lost its nerve; Typographers and Erasmus; Robin Kinross reviews Der Raum des Buches and On Book Design; Mooi maar goed at the Stedelijk - good enough for Dutch graphic design?; Alexey Brodivitch; Anthropology comes first: Icograda seminar
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