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Hardly a week goes by without a new story of someone’s personal data being left on a train or farmed by Facebook, but a new wave of solipsistic statisticians are taking advantage of their own to do some soul-searching, writes Alexander Ecob.

Great moments in information design (continued). I was cleaning out my father’s studio library when I found The Universal Traveler, writes Anne Burdick. Subtitled A Soft-Systems Guide to: Creativity, Problem-Solving and the Process of Reaching Goals, it sat alongside other books that Californian techno-eco-utopian designers were reading in the 1970s: The Gutenberg Galaxy, Paolo Soleri’s Arcology (read Rick Poynor’s ‘The designer as architect’ in Eye 32), Buckminster Fuller’s 4d Timelock, and The Whole Earth Catalog (see ‘Tool-shop for a counterculture’ in Eye 78).

Great moments in information design (continued). We have so much access to information now, writes Gill Ross. According to Kim Baer’s Information Design Workbook (Rockport, 2008), there are more than 3000 books published worldwide every day, and a week’s worth of The New York Times is estimated to contain more information than someone in the eighteenth century was likely to come across in a lifetime.

The latest issue of Eye celebrates the visualisation of information (among other things), but let’s not forget our other senses.

A few weeks ago I went down to Uckfield, to see Eye 78 on press at Pureprint (below, the printers formerly known as Beacon Press), where we have printed Eye since the magazine became independent in April 2008, writes Eye editor John L. Walters.

As he reaches the final stages of his latest Annual Report, Nicholas Felton finds time to give Eye magazine an exclusive interview, writes Alexander Ecob.

It has been printed, packaged and delivered to subscribers and bookshops all over the world. But if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a taste of what to look forward to in Eye 78, our biggest ever issue.

St Bride Library has been undergoing something of a renaissance in recent years, writes Gerry Leonidas. It is emerging as the place to host design-related events in London, and an increasingly wide audience guarantee sold-out events. ‘The Design of Understanding’ was sold out to a mix of regulars as well as new faces.

Great moments in information design (continued). Compared with most other London Tube lines the Piccadilly line is one I actually like travelling on, writes Lulu Pinney.