Eye on Design, Issue Six – Utopias

Eye on Design turns a well trained eye on the best new work from the world’s most exciting designers.

Every issue of Eye on Design’s tri-annual magazine explores a new theme that highlights the unexpected intersections of design and the wider world. With each issue, the magazine publishers invite a new guest designer to take the helm and push the boundaries of editorial design, bringing fresh, provocative ideas to life.

“A crisply designed think tank of articles and essays; more literary journal than design showcase.”—Creative Bloq

“A really fascinating piece of magazine-making”—Stack

“The editorial conversation swings effortlessly from print to coding to art, addressing the personal and the political as well as both the detailed and the general.”—magCulture

In this issue:

In Eye on Design #06, the “Utopias” issue, we explore the elusive concept of idealism in its many forms. Over the course of 160 pages, we look back at the origins of Modernism and the concept of a universal solution; and we look to the future to envision how education, labor, the environment, and art might benefit from big, optimistic, and critical ideas. In between, we tell stories about the present and the designers who are actively working toward creating a better world.

Inside the issue:

• • A visit to reclusive cartoonist Seth and what might be his most remarkable project to date: his home
  • The rise and fall of Vaporwave, the internet’s native aesthetic
  • Tips on how to be a “responsible” designer during the climate change era
  • An in-depth conversation with publishing collective One of My Kind
  • A detailed account of Cooper Union’s tuition fight and how it bred a generation of student activists
    And so much more including: double die-cuts, satire, Mindy Seu’s Cyberfeminist Index, and an illustrated guide to women-run utopias

Featuring: Khoi Vinh, Lance Wyman, Tea Uglow, Paula Scher, Natasha Jen, Sairah Ashman, Min Lew, Keith Yamashita, Lindsay Ballant, Michael Ventura, Noemie Le Co