Feature
Talking pictures (Isotype)
By representing data in simple graphic form, Isotype anticipated modern information design.
The digital essence
Lexicon, by Bram de Does, is a type designer’s type design, par excellence.
Every frame counts
Whatever the genre – or budget – each element of Kyle Cooper’s film titles is a painstakingly executed piece of design
Documents of the marvellous
The authentic spirit of Surrealism lives on – in projects based on curious collections that celebrate the strange and numinous
Cheap Jack Flash
Fluorescent inks – costly, dramatic, even ‘vulgar’ – provided 1950s designers with a fresh challenge
Part of the process
Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of ‘relational aesthetics’ may give designers a new set of tools
LA art school
From Punk to production design: the widescreen career of Alex McDowell
This is 1968. . .This is Mexico
Daoud Sarhandi, Carolina Rivas
Linking Huichol imagery to Op Art gave the Mexico Olympics a memorable graphic identity
Reputations: Bob Gill
‘I’ve never had a problem with a dumb client. There’s no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.’ Interview by Patrick Baglee
In few words / Manplan 1
The AR’s Manplan is a tactile reminder of a time when magazines lived dangerously