Opinion: Monitor
Critical spirit of a telephone book
The all-lowercase Dutch phone book has yielded to the ‘Modern Traditionalism’ of Martin Majoor
No longer collecting dust
The intellectual investment we make in graphic design is reflected in its collectability and value
Business, medicine, the law … or design [extra
Under western influence, South East Asian graphic design is growing fast. In Korean TV soaps, leading characters have jobs as designers
Blink: the stress of reading
Spare a thought for the reader’s overworked eye muscles when designing text pages
What happens when the edges dissolve?
We are living in a time of profound ambiguity. Physical and institutional boundaries are in flux. The blur is the emblem of design in the 1990s.
Thirty-six point Gorilla
Just about every approach to describing typefaces has been put to the test. Now font names…
I don’t use a Mac but I know a man who can
British design has split down the middle. Should its priority be art or analysis, and is the computer a new ‘language’ or simply a tool?
By Michael Horsham