Blog: Design history

12 October 2011

Significant others

Significant others

anne-marie conway

Steven Heller invites designers to come clean about their graphic passions
Steven Heller loves design, but he’s quick to admit it’s ‘not a monogamous relationship’, writes…

10 October 2011

Noted #14

Noted #14

noted

Powerful graphics, Alexey Brodovitch and underground newspapers
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…

7 October 2011

Design for drugs in NYC

Design for drugs in NYC

Exhibition will explore the graphic world of pharmaceutical products
A new exhibition at The Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union will explore…

28 September 2011

Geography lesson

Geography lesson

liz farrelly

‘3 Kings’ exhibition brings NYC street art to the spaces of sunny LA
Street Art is flavour of the year in Los Angeles, writes Liz Farrelly, thanks to…

22 September 2011

Type and structure

Type and structure

julia thrift

Revisiting UK design practice 8vo, creators of Octavo magazine
The small, London-based design practice 8vo has an unusual position in the recent history of…

19 September 2011

Noted #11

Noted #11

noted

NYT time lapse, facsimile dustjackets, nerdy day trips and LDF madness
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…

15 September 2011

Typotranslation: à l’infinitif

Typotranslation: à l’infinitif

the form of the book

Richard Hamilton turned Duchamp’s notes into typographic form
‘It’s as though a science textbook has been put into type by an intoxicated typographer…

9 September 2011

Noted #10

Noted #10

noted

A minimal objection, reading a cube, the latest letterpress and Sutnar
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…

31 August 2011

Reputations revisited: Terry Jones

Reputations revisited: Terry Jones

john l. walters

i-D’s founder and art director says, ‘design shouldn’t be complicated.’
‘I’m a creative director. I work with photographers. Years ago I said design is a…

29 August 2011

Noted #8

Noted #8

noted

Why care about type? Ben Bos, HMV and playbills from the Leeds archive
More links to sites, articles and interviews that grabbed our attention this week. ‘How to…
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