Opinion
Formulaic, modular approaches threaten the chemistry of the master-apprentice model.
A letter from Harry Woodrow, creative director, Multistorey, London
A letter from Rick Poynor, London
Anne Harild’s work offers a challenge to the unthreatening norms of British illustration
Features
The walls of Naples are a canvas for the crimes, passions and contradictions of the city’s inhabitants
These tractor badges survive as relics of a more heroic age: for them, the earth still moves
‘When I took a back seat to allow TDR to grow beyond me, it died; its creative spark was crushed . . .…
Metahaven makes visual proposals that suggest a new role for graphic design in public life
The digital revolution still fuels a creative explosion in the way type is made and sold. Twelve…
Margaret Calvert signed the UK – from road to rail to air. Now Henrik Kubel has digitised her Rail…
Multifunctional font families, crafted for every eventuality, are doing away with the need to seek out…
Expressive, explosive and sometimes beautiful, this hand-drawn magazine lettering defies categorisation
Optically sized fonts are the ‘slow food’ trend of typography, appreciated by a minority but with…