Eye 98 Vol25 Spring 2019

Eye Magazine issue 98 Contents:

Front matter

Education  Pay it forward

Ruben Fontana devised a system for teaching typography that is grounded in Argentina's culture and politics. By Sarah Snaith

Broadcasting The designer as   podcaster Podcasts deliver a mini-conference to the smartphone in your pocket. By Katie Evans and Gabriela Matuszyk

We Made This They made Canada Working against the clock, withvirtually no budget, Greg Durrell made a film thatshows how European immigrantscreated Canada's visual

Photo Critique Posters for the people Photographs by the Polish designer Wojciech Zamecznik investigate the use of posters as public communication. By Rick Poynoridentity.

Features

Typenow Independence and originality

The shifting landscape of type distribution, sales and design, accompanied by contemporary font designs - States of independence  By Jan Middendorp , The business of type design By Sarah Snaith Originality and inspiration By Peter Bifak

Strategy of excess Like a human algorithm, Hansje van Halem explores a huge number of variables until she finds the right 'recipe' for each project.By Silvia Sfligiotti

The  enigma of Therese Moll This young designer is credited with introducing Swiss typography to MIT. By Elizabeth Resnick

Return to the  square A chance discovery by somebuildersled to the adaptation and expansion of a 1930s alphabet by  one of Switzerland's foremost designers.By John L. Walters

New bottle old wine Drawing on the punches, matrices, specimens and smoke proofs at St Bride Library, Commercial Classics give nineteenth- century typefaces a new lease of life.

Last  man   casting Rainer Gerstenberg is one of the fewpeople inthe world to castfoundry type, keeping alive a craft that was developed more than half a millennium ago. By Ferdinand P. Ulrich

Bram de Does: the king of (functional) swing An insistence that technology should match design spurred typographer Bram de Does to create two of the twentieth century's most beautiful types. By Mark Thomson

Uncoated

Essay Rick Poynor's take on Taschen's two-volume The History ofGraphic Design

Reviews Including: Gerard Unger's Theory ofType Design; Craig Oldham's They Live: A Visual and Cultural Awakening; 'Printing R-Evolution' in Venice; The    information design of W. E. B. Du Bois and Charles-Joseph Minard; 'WE DISSENT... Design of the Women's Movement in New York'; John Berry reviews Paul Luna's Typography: A Very Short Introduction.