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Kicking complacency in the ass
In the late 1960s, the underground press was a spontaneous and primitive rebellion against the status…
Controlled passion: the art of Fernando Gutiérrez
In post-Franco Spain, a cool Catalan breeze blows through the often humid, overheated world of…
Reputations: Milton Glaser
‘I am nervous about ideologies, whether it’s the ideology of business or the ideology of Bolshevism. I…
Play-centre of the avant-garde
At the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, design reflects a developing sense of identity and…
Blam: the essence is speed
William Owen looks at design in the age of digital reproduction
A sense of rupture
ReVerb is a four woman, one-man design team in the heart of polyglot Los Angeles. In their conceptually…
Underground matriarchy
Ellen Lupton, Laurie Haycock Makela
Women who have shaped the profession by their own work and by enabling those around them
Theatre of dreams
Andrzej Klimowski is obsessed with eyes, faces, hands, angels and devils. He is one of Britain’s most…
White space black hat
Derek Birdsall harbours a secret. It has given him 30 years at the top. If it works, he says, use it…
Total design
In its all too brief life, Alexey Brodovitch’s Portfolio magazine achieved perfection