Feature: Visual culture
The thin controller
Progress bars have changed the way we engage with songs, films and stories
Wit, bad taste and loud type
The photos of legendary graphic designer Robert Brownjohn show an outsider’s view of 1960s London
Colouring in the city
Camille Walala’s exuberant, colourful designs for the Splice Post building bring warmth and vitality to London’s Old Street
Face in the crowd
Amid the rush of modern gadgetry, Kuchar Swara’s Sekford watches stand out because they are, paradoxically, timeless
London Letters
Philip Sayer photographs lettering on the streets of London in this alphabetical compendium
Crowd-sourced wisdom?
As Hershey and Airbnb have discovered, the internet has spawned a vast, powerful audience of opinionated design critics. If resistance is futile, how can designers adapt?
Dance on the spot
Abbott Miller’s iPad contemporary dance apps for the 2wice Arts Foundation – a dynamic coming together of code, choreography, music and design – bring playful, digital interaction to loops and layers of physical performance
Critical heat on the Aegean coast
A workshop in a remote Turkish village gave international students a chance to explore what design can do when technology is scarce
Pay close attention
Adam Michaels and Prem Krishnamurthy of Project Projects bring deep cultural engagement to every aspect of their practice, both in their client work and in their personal ventures
To have and to hold
The challenges of digital publishing have galvanised a new spirit in book design and production. Is it just the decadent flourish of a disappearing format?