Opinion
How does a graphic work claim its place in history? Notoriety and originality helps, but nothing beats…
Who cares about graphic design history?
Who cares about graphic design history?
Who cares about graphic design history?
Features
In the late 1980s, US designer and historian Martha Scotford set out on a mission to discover what might…
Humble and often vulgar, chapbooks offer an illuminating window into the medieval world.
Both artisan and art director, Hermann Eidenbenz was a subtle master of Swiss design.
Ko Sliggers conveyed a complex, subtle message with a seemingly effortless collage.
By representing data in simple graphic form, Isotype anticipated modern information design.
Jacqueline Casey’s posters used wit, invention and the grid to reach the essence of each subject.
Lexicon, by Bram de Does, is a type designer’s type design, par excellence.
The journal Néon was a unique graphic expression of Surrealism
Michael Stipe’s early R.E.M. sleeves were a strange fusion of the DIY spirit of punk and the mystery of…
Roundel’s identity for Railfreight in the late 1980s unified a multi-faceted business with a strong…
Todd Trexler’s Das Black Moonlight poster marked drag’s movement into the public consciousness.
Though touted as the ‘university of the air’, it was the OU’s graphic design that made it a…
The title sequence for this Truffaut movie heralds brilliantly a world where the written word is…
Katy Keene made comic history by being the first magazine to be designed in part by its readers.
A modest dictionary of print terms has been a source of inspiration for 60 years.
After 90 years, Ishihara’s colour deficiency plates have proved their effectiveness as a diagnostic tool…
When art director Art Paul made the journey from Bauhaus to Hefner’s Playboy mansion, men’s mags…
Keef’s album covers are visual essays of their time, full of bleakness and possibility.
The world’s first museum of its kind, plus the ‘European Championship of Graphic Design’