Feature: Visual culture
The producer as author
For Bruce Mau, graphic design is a way of investigating ethical, cultural and philisophical issues
We hardly knew you
Street-corner merchandising tries to remember the twin towers
Penguin crime
Romek Marber’s 1960s paperback identity is a landmark of independent British design
Reputations: Jean Widmer
‘Signage reflects both the complexity of space and the way a place is organised. And it is very…
Reputations: Terry Jones
‘I’m a creative director. I work with photographers. Years ago I said design is a piece of piss. Design…
General Idea: Infiltrate, infect and mutate
Ignoring the boundaries between art and design, this Canadian trio worked in both fields with an…
A designer and a one-man band
Cranbrook’s song and dance man goes back to college with a bang
23 Envelope: ambience and inner space
Operating undercover, using the enigmatic title of 23 Envelope, Nigel Grierson and his partner Vaughan…
A design (to sign roads by)
As an exemplary rational design programme, the road signs of Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert demand…
Big subject, little pictures
Joe Sacco uses the comics medium to describe the lives of Palestinians