Feature: Visual culture
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
Look away
‘The South’, Seymour Chwast’s special civil rights issue of Push Pin Graphic, was a virtuoso display of…
Maps and dreams
No printing method is too basic for Jake Tilson. Created with photocopiers, his books, magazines and…
Cute culture
The Japanese obsession with cute icons is rooted in cultural tradition