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Home Counties surrealism
Keef’s album covers are visual essays of their time, full of bleakness and possibility.
Buenos Aires project
Argentina’s dialogue with the European pioneers of postwar Modernism gave rise to a graphic design culture that remains fiercely contemporary
The world made visible
Motif, edited by Ruari McLean, was a quirky mix of art and illustration, with its roots in graphic art and typography
The floating signifier
Branding a nation may be just a matter of saying everything there is to say about nothing
Grab the hook
‘Musicians are cooler than normal people, even if they’re flakey and poor!’ – Chattanooga’s Young Monster
Reputations: Ian Anderson
‘When I took a back seat to allow TDR to grow beyond me, it died; its creative spark was crushed . . . the more I took myself out of the equation to see if it could do better without me, the more obvious it became that Ian Anderson and The Designers Republic were inseparable.’
Fair trade?
Indian advertising has a not-so-hidden message: change your skin colour to get the perfect job or mate
Reputations: Ken Garland
‘The Nazis had the most effective corporate identity ever – this should warn us. That evil, horrible regime had this superlative corporate identity in which they didn’t tolerate any diversity.’
Reading On Brand
A fresh look at Wally Olins’s highly regarded branding manual, now in paperback
