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THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

82 WINTER 2012

Eye 82 Winter 2012

Commercial Type ‘Where there are words, there is typography’

Graphic knowledge Eight examples of information designs that made a difference

Show and tell James Mollison’s photographs invite the viewer to look beyond face values

Flights of fancy Si Scott’s 3D paper insects

The new breed It’s Nice That unveil INT Works, grown directly from their roles as curators and editors

Naked words In an age of visual overkill, the purely typographic book cover persists

Design enquiry Graphic design’s quest for selfunderstanding

Old school layout The funny old world of Private Eye

Shock tactics America’s ‘altweeklies’ are a hotbed of attention-grabbing art direction

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