Eye Magazine

Feature

The adverts

Jane Grylls

Adverts mark the difference between a journal and a magazine, claims Jane Grylls

The colophon

John Morgan

This is the page whose small gestures reveal who’s who, says John Morgan

The reviews

John L. Walters

Evaluations by ‘trusted third parties’ are a mag staple, says John L. Walters

The features

Tim de Lisle

A feature should have a spring in its step and a gleam in its eye, says Tim de Lisle

The front matter

Vici MacDonald

This ‘bitty section’ requires a jigsaw of design and writing skills, says Vici MacDonald

The contents

Mark Porter

An unglamorous page, true, but it’s also a clever multi-tasker, says Mark Porter

The cover

Ian Birch

Great magazine covers are built on a sense of fearlessness, says Ian Birch

Anatomy of a magazine

Eye editors, Ian Birch, Mark Porter, Vici MacDonald, Tim de Lisle, John L. Walters, Simon Rogers, Jane Grylls, John Morgan

Each magazine is unique. Happily, magazines are all alike, too. Here we analyse some of the elements that most mags have in common … the things that make them essentially ‘magazine-like’

Systematic play

Kevin J. Hunt

Using intuition, research and process, the work of Armin Lindauer and Betina Müller revitalises connections between art, design and science

Reputations: Atlas, Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martín

Anna Lisa Reynolds

‘You have to be the orchestra conductor, taking control of all these elements and making them magically come together’

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