Feature: Information Design
A circle that moved the earth
Copernicus’s diagram of the planets 1543
Branches and roots
John L. Walters on the break-ups and tearful reunions of Rock Family Trees
Do it yourself
Fraser Muggeridge reads a trusty manual that shows how to fix almost anything
Undergrowth
Untangling the internet with IA’s metro ‘snapshot’
Strip science
Rob Waller decodes the multimodal layout lessons of Rupert Bear
Training the big guns
Peter Sullivan’s newspaper war visuals 1970s & 80s
Life’s little detours
Eric Heiman salutes the ‘Edward Hopper of design and comic art’
Big business, big world
Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas, 1953
Tool-shop for a counterculture
Ken Garland hails the ultimate buying guide for the anti-capitalist revolution
LA art school
From Punk to production design: the widescreen career of Alex McDowell
