Adrian Shaughnessy
Recent articles by Adrian Shaughnessy
Who cares if you read?
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
A Dutch battle that still rattles
Issue 90, Summer 2015
Rethinking Lubalin
Issue 83, Summer 2012
As his book on Herb Lubalin – the first in almost 30 years – goes to press, Adrian Shaughnessy…
One man brand?
Issue 76, Summer 2010
Manfred Eicher’s uncompromising artistic vision has always defined the look and feel of ECM.
Instant Tarkovsky
Issue 60, Summer 2006
Failure – the designer’s guardian angel [EXTRACT]
Issue 71, Spring 2009
Back on the old battleground
Issue 48, Summer 2003
Sad beauty of Bucher’s cover art
Issue 45, Autumn 2002
Oliver’s Posters
Issue 63, Spring 2007
Raise the bar
Issue 79, Spring 2011
Uncompromising posters for the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in Paris
Light and shade at the picture house
Issue 41, Autumn 2001
Not browsing but reading
Issue 36, Summer 2000
Is there an alternative to scrolling text and gap-toothed HTML?
Truth lies in the surface
Issue 42, Winter 2001
You can feel it. The unimpeachable authenticity of uncoated board
Reduction
Issue 38, Winter 2000
Is graphic design, with its allusions and clutter, fundamentally antithetical to minimalism?
Reinterpreting the classics
Issue 21, Summer 1996
For a handful of classical record companies, expressive design is a commercial priority.
Pre-postmodernity
Issue 50, Winter 2003
Does a small book from nearly 30 years ago encapsulate a ‘golden age’?
Laptop aesthetics
Issue 49, Autumn 2003
A crackly, digital approach informs one of three current design trends.
Schism and reunification
Issue 72, Summer 2009
Where there was once discord, there is now harmony, as design zealously embraces the made image.…
Smoke and glue
Issue 39, Spring 2001
The visual candour of Wallace Berman’s hand-bound Semina magazine links 1950s hipster art with…
Mo’Wax
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
The urban swagger of this small label’s music is mirrored by its freewheeling ‘house style’. By…
Mystery and clarity
Issue 52, Summer 2004
These children’s book illustrations captured moments of social history
Think of your ears as eyes
Issue 16, Spring 1995
Barbara Wojirsch and Dieter Rehm bring a mysterious beauty to the record label graphics of ECM
Angela Lorenz
Issue 49, Autumn 2003
A Berliner’s work finds parallels between laptop music and design. By Adrian Shaughnessy
A glimpse of graphic hell
Issue 53, Autumn 2004
Whatever ideological stance they take, designers must at least believe in design
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Historical digital
20 October 2011