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Mandarin to Mao
The modern Maoist versions of traditional Chinese characters introduced ambiguity and confusion by deleting information
Branding
The Wieden & Kennedy agency provides big-name clients with the personal styles of cutting-edge graphic designers
The diaphanous machine
Designers can bring clarity and consistency to Web interfaces and find new ways to organise navigation
Pouchee’s lost alphabets
Few contempory display alphabets equal those of Louis John Pouchée for vivacity and invention
Meta’s tectonic man
In Erik Spiekermann’s hands, typographic design is a tool for rendering the world more accessible
The aesthetics of transience
With computers as the means for limitless manipulations of signs, designers now exalt subjectivity and impermanence
Truth lies in the surface
You can feel it. The unimpeachable authenticity of uncoated board
Information imagined
H2G2 animations anticipated the look and feel of future computers
Detach, detourne and consume
Alienation sells! The seductive flatness of Situationist aesthetics