Opinion: Magazines

 
Heroes of wealth and power

Heroes of wealth and power

Magazines, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

An essay published in Mack’s new ‘Discourse’ series accuses three prominent photographers of creating propaganda for global capitalism. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Editorial Eye 96

Editorial Eye 96

Magazines, Editorial

Magazine special issue, part one
 
Browsing, or reading?

Browsing, or reading?

Graphic design, Magazines, Photography, Typography, Visual culture

A new shop demonstrates the global resurgence of indie magazines. Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Editorial Eye 89

Editorial Eye 89

Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, New media, Photography

Photography and illustration may be separate disciplines, but they are interwoven with design. The photo…
 
Against the flow

Against the flow

Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Visual culture

As editorial design becomes more predictable, Swedish feminist quarterly Bang kicks against visual norms. Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Photographer as page maker

Photographer as page maker

Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Photography, Reviews, Visual culture, Web Critique

David Campany’s examination of Walker Evans’ freewheeling magazine work – for Fortune, Architectural Forum, Life, and others – is a revelation. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Scarcity and silence: Amc2 Journal

Scarcity and silence: Amc2 Journal

Graphic design, Magazines, Visual culture

An image-led journal marries the serendipitous collisions of image-sharing sites with the physicality of print. Critique by Rick Poynor
 
A persuasive chancer

A persuasive chancer

Graphic design, Magazines, Visual culture

On the basis of its first issue The Happy Hypocrite is small, quietly experimental and just a bit passive aggressive. Critique by Rick Poynor
 

Chewing it over: issues of style and content

Critical path, Design history, Magazines, Agenda

Agenda In the spring issue of Eye (no. 47 vol. 12) I wrote a particularly…