Feature: Graphic design
Quentin Fiore: Massaging the message
The man who gave form to Marshall McLuhan’s ‘global village’ designed books that were both for and ahead…
Max Bittrof: visual engineer
Max Bittrof was one of the leading German designers of the 1920s. Unlike many exponents of the New…
Video to go
Video packaging is an area of graphics both marginal and ubiquitous. Who decides how it looks?
Cult of the ugly
Designers used to stand for beauty and order. Now beauty is passé and ugliness is smart. How did we get…
Tokyo Salamander
Vaughan Oliver’s collaboration with Shinro Ohtake is an oblique diary of dreams
Bj
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…