Feature: Typography
Up close and tight
The legendary Herb Lubalin brought humour, sensuality and a contemporary flourish to complex typographic…
If the image of the text … has more value than its content …
With visual culture triumphant and content marginalised, how can typography be defined?
Read me! Part 2. Literacy in graphic design education
‘Relativist’ debates within the profession have extended to the way design and typography are taught. If…
Read me! Part 1. Literacy in graphic design
Graphic designers are responsible for the communication of ideas through words, signs and pictures. Yet…
Max Bittrof: visual engineer
Max Bittrof was one of the leading German designers of the 1920s. Unlike many exponents of the New…
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Robert Brownjohn wanted to eliminate the boundaries between experience and design. In an explosively…
Reputations: Wolfgang Weingart
‘My work is like a quarry. People see a stone they like, appropriate it and work it until there’s…