Feature: Visual culture
Picture: Killa
Each of Graham MacIndoe’s drug ‘baggies’ brands a different high
Vapour trails
Steampunk’s florid industrial nostalgia might yet be the defining aesthetic of our time
Painted thrills and spills
Fred Fowle was the UK’s foremost fairground artist. His go-faster graphics and futuristic lettering live…
Miss Fixit
Tina Roth Eisenberg never had a business plan. But all the things she dreams up – the Swissmiss blog…
Free for all
In designing the Ubuntu type family, Dalton Maag had to produce faces for print and screen in thirteen…
NASA patches
Embroidered space travel patches, collected and appreciated by Eugene Dorr
Chicken restaurants
The appearance of Britain’s fried chicken joints are a uniquely British take on an American theme
Shock tactics
America’s funky ‘altweeklies’ are a hotbed of zero-budget, attention-grabbing cover art direction.
A terrible beauty
The atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud has become the logo of annihilation
The producer as author
For Bruce Mau, graphic design is a way of investigating ethical, cultural and philisophical issues