Feature: Visual culture
A terrible beauty
The atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud has become the logo of annihilation
Punk uncovered: an unofficial history of provincial opposition
British punk gave a sound, a voice and a visual currency to the disenfranchised and remote. Overlooked…
Kicking complacency in the ass
In the late 1960s, the underground press was a spontaneous and primitive rebellion against the status…
Your system sucks!
The flight from Modernism left a yearning for graphics that were rough, real, unaffected and believable.…
Prints of Islam
In Syria and Beirut, craftsmen make inexpensive devotional images for the workplace and home
Video to go
Video packaging is an area of graphics both marginal and ubiquitous. Who decides how it looks?
Cult of the ugly
Designers used to stand for beauty and order. Now beauty is passé and ugliness is smart. How did we get…
Tokyo Salamander
Vaughan Oliver’s collaboration with Shinro Ohtake is an oblique diary of dreams
Bj
Robert Brownjohn wanted to eliminate the boundaries between experience and design. In an explosively…