Review
Elusive characters
On the surface, Marcel’s Letters is a fascinating story. Once you dig a little deeper…
A weighty guide to Latin typefaces
More than ever, typography is an incessant talking (and writing) point. Its history is a…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that ‘you can’t…
Imperfect beauty
This book exists solely because its author Esther K. Smith considers Specimens of Chromatic Wood…
Books on books
The London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA), founded in 2012 by artists Simon Goode and…
A sharp eye for Brazilian design
The short title of this exhibition – ‘Brasil Hoje’ [Brazil Today] – gives an idea…
Inspired information
In her 2014 book Graphesis Johanna Drucker describes information visualisations as ‘intellectual Trojan horses’ –…
Artists’ letters
Despite the importance of words and letters in the history of art, few critics –…
A note on the type
The Eye reviews desk bends under the weight of new books on type, from the…
Swiss style: the prequel
It all started with a letter that Dorothea Hofmann sat down to write to Philip…