Ian Swift
Recent articles about Ian Swift
We Made This: Technical challenge
Issue 95, Winter 2018
Sarah Snaith talks to Briar Levit, director of a new film on the history of graphic design
A life in grafix
Issue 94, Summer 2017
Here’s a fantastic, heavy, extraordinary 374-page book whose ten chapters…
Club-runner graphics
Issue 5, Winter 1991
In the mid to late 1980s we would be out every night at some club or other…
Beyond typography
Issue 15, Winter 1994
Fuse’s talented team is on an inspired quest to ‘Make it new!’ But what is the project really…
Mo’Wax
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
The urban swagger of this small label’s music is mirrored by its freewheeling ‘house style’. By…
Go-faster graphics
Issue 16, Spring 1995
Radical young designers changed the face of British design in the 1980s. A decade later, their…
Recent blog posts by Ian Swift
Noted #83
20 September 2017
Sea Prayer, Poster House, Pit, Straight No Chaser and National 2
Here are a few things – VR journalism, Poster House, new issues of Pit and Straight No Chaser and a new typeface – that caught our attention in recent weeks.
Classic Collections – Back to the 90s
11 February 2016
Surf back down the information superhighway to a time when the World Wide Web was thrillingly new – with Eye nos. 14, 16, 23 & 25
Most early editions of Eye magazine are out of print. However a handful from the mid-to-late 1990s are still available from the Eye shop at ESco in Essex, and this bundle is an especially good bargain for magazine addicts.