Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Name: Radius Designer: Radek Łukasiewicz Foundry: Three Dots Type Release Date: 10/2021 Back Story: Setting type on curves presents today’s designers with a unique set of challenges— correcting the awkwardness of letter spacing on a vector curve can feel like arm wrestling with a giant. Yet curving text is natural in handwriting and lettering, seen across many cultures and scripts,...
As another tough year ends and a new year begins, we wanted to look to the future with an optimism that 2022 could be better than 2021. At Eye on Design, we believe that designers are critical in shaping the future, and we wanted to find out what futures designers are hoping for next year. In that spirit, we asked...
With the year drawing to a close, the EoD editors were curious about what personal revelations different creatives have experienced of late. This series of essays, Reflections, explores the human side of design. “The container is a structurally necessary but frequently unacknowledgeable precondition of becoming.” —Zoë Sofia, “Container Technologies” I. My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she...
Over the past few years, what’s unusual has become the norm in packaging design for consumer goods. Custom fonts, characters, illustrations, and even extended universes have become de rigueur for brands who want to create products that people can get excited about stocking up on. As 2021 zips up, we’ve selected a handful of recent designs that are representative of...
Name: Prélettres Designer: Éloïsa Pérez Distributor: Poem Release Date: November 2021 Back Story: What relationship exists between graphic design and pedagogy? How do certain forms function in the transmission of information? These are some of the questions Éloïsa Pérez has explored over the years while visiting nursery schools and examining how children discover the alphabet, and how they use books....
As a teenager growing up in the suburbs who was interested in graphic design, the design section of my local Barnes and Noble was my only connection to the profession (like many smaller suburbs around the country, there were no graphic design studios in the area). I treasured these books because they opened a world up to me, providing a...
Regardless of whether you’re a seasoned Eye on Design reader, you’re new to the site, or you only *occasionally* stop by (hey, we still love you), we relish our annual opportunity to serve as your tour guide to the best articles we published in the year that was. As an editorial team, we work closely with writers to dive deep...
With the year drawing to a close, the EoD editors were curious about what personal revelations different creatives experienced in 2021. This series of essays, Reflections, explores the human side of design. A week before the artist, thinker, and poet Etel Adnan passed away in November, I was climbing the spiraling rotunda at the Guggenheim, where her paintings, tapestries, and...
I remember the first time I bought a hard copy of The Paris Review. I was at a sleek coffee shop in Brooklyn; the kind that has polished oak chairs and sells vegan doughnuts. The magazine cost me more than $20 after tax, but it seemed like a worthwhile purchase. It was physically full, packed with the bylines of writers...
Ruthless as asking a parent to disclose which child they love most, we pressed a dozen typeface designers around the globe to name their favorite fonts released over the past year. What emerged was an energetic mix: entirely modern scripts that hearken back to the days of calligraphy, brush lettering, and copperplate penmanship; fonts that hover dramatically between serif and...
Geometry, clarity, functionality, and a deliberate lack of ornamentation. These are the ideas typically associated with Bauhaus typography. Famously, students and teachers at the Bauhaus school embraced simplified sans-serifs typefaces, believing that stripped-back forms would be more appealing, useful, and accessible than the ornate blackletter adorning most printed matter in Germany during the early 1920s. “Modernist typefaces were egalitarian in...
With the year drawing to a close, the EoD editors were curious about what personal revelations different creatives experienced in 2021. This series of essays, Reflections, explores the human side of design. This is a story where everything goes left and eventually right in the end. My pandemic experience was intense. My immune system failed me when I caught COVID...
