Critique
Critique is the regular Eye column by Rick Poynor.
Online rhetoric
Though intended to make its contents ‘democratic’, art website The Space is a perplexing jumble.…
Words and pictures talking
Canongate has reissued John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man, about Gloucestershire doctor John…
Against the flow
As editorial design becomes more predictable, Swedish feminist quarterly Bang kicks against visual…
Energy and emotion
Aperture’s new series of photography books may prove to be an essential educational resource for serious…
Readymade format
An illustrated ‘gift book’ dictionary by Heretic brings Marcel Duchamp’s ideas to a wider audience.…
Photographer as page maker
David Campany’s examination of Walker Evans’ freewheeling magazine work – for Fortune, Architectural…
Space for stories
Visual Editions’ box of literary maps challenges authors to think differently about the structures that…
Occupation hazardous
For ‘place hackers’, subversive and daredevil urban explorers, photography validates a search for the…
Incisive vision
Eduardo Paolozzi’s gifts as a collagist have been neglected by the worlds of both art and design.…
Empathy and doubt in Arles
From the cool alienation of colour to the directness of black and white – Rick Poynor reflects on the…