Eye no. 51: Spring 2004

“The world’s most beautiful and collectable graphic design journal . . .”

Light | Photography books | Pamminger | Palestinian posters | Lorant, etc.

John L. Walters [Editor]: Eye no. 51. London: Wordsearch Ltd., Volume 13, Number 51, Spring 2004. Quarto. Letterpress scored photo illustrated wrappers. 88 pp. Articles and advertisements printed on multiple paper stocks. Essays illustrated with full color examples throughout, with design and typography of the highest order. Light wear overall, but a nearly fine copy.

9.25 x 11.75-inch quarterly Design journal with 88 pages of fully illustrated content. “Eye is the world’s most beautiful and collectable graphic design journal, published quarterly for professional designers, students and anyone interested in critical, informed writing about graphic design and visual culture.”

Contents:

• Opinion
• Big fun with words: Critique by Rick Poynor. “Do Zembla’s readers need this much graphic cheer-leading?”
• The end of typography: slow death by default. Agenda, Phil Baines. “Designing for the partially sighted: misguided guidlines.”
• Features
• Alchemy of layout: Abbott Miller. “Walter Pamminger champions the potential of design to create content. “
• Gigantic pixels: Catherine Slessor. “A new arts centre faces Graz with a bulging low-res screen.”
• Self-evident, self-motivated, self-perpetuating: John O'Reilly, John L. Walters. “Creative work by Experimental Jetset, Mother, Struktur and others.”
• Exposure: David Thompson. “Two epic photographic books give human endeavour a new perspective.”
• The order of pages: Adrian Shaughnessy. “Can graphic design reinvigorate the photographic monograph?”
• Back into battle: Dan Nadel. “Nicholas Blechman’s ’zine is a barbed response to contemporary US politics.”
• Land and liberation: Dana Bartelt. “Palestinian artists tell their people’s stories through symbols and allegory.”
• A new kind of story: Steven Heller. “An interview with pictorial magazine pioneer Stefan Lorant (1901-97).”
• Graphic tourism: Jason Grant, Daoud Sarhandi. “Shooting, cropping and editing turns the vernacular into glossy publishing.”
• Reviews
• Advertising And The Artist

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