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Recent articles about anonymous designers
Encyclopedic ambitions
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Party people
Issue 96, Spring 2018
Duck the issue
Issue 96, Spring 2018
We Made This: Technical challenge
Issue 95, Winter 2018
Sarah Snaith talks to Briar Levit, director of a new film on the history of graphic design
Design culture with constraints
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Making sense of a complex ideal
Issue 92, Summer 2016
I am a poster
Issue 92, Summer 2016
David Crowley, curator of ‘The Poster Remediated’ at the Warsaw International Poster Biennale…
James Mosley: A life in objects
Issue 90, Summer 2015
Through his ideas, collecting and dogged research, the former St Bride librarian has shown that…
Words and pictures talking
Canongate has reissued John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man, about Gloucestershire doctor…
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
Issue 89, Winter 2014
The retoucher’s accidental art
Issue 88, Summer 2014
The reworked press photos now being discarded are unique objects and compellingly strange images.…
Comic cuts
Issue 87, Spring 2014
Andreu Balius collects Spanish meat papers, which are typically covered in graphic images of…
A Monotype timeline
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype
Stanley Morison: Changing the Times
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
In 1929 Monotype’s typographical adviser, Stanley Morison, published an article critical of the…
Deep in the Monotype archive
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
A wide selection of Monotype’s drawings, artworks, publications and vintage photographs spread…
Pages from the library of libraries
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Club-runner graphics
Issue 5, Winter 1991
Dan Dare, Bunty and all their pals
Issue 83, Summer 2012
Crash covers
Issue 52, Summer 2004
J. G. Ballard’s novel resists attempts to summarise it with a single image
The meaning of money
Issue 5, Winter 1991
Bank notes change hands without so much as a second glace – a daily act of faith that says much…
We hardly knew you
Issue 42, Winter 2001
Street-corner merchandising tries to remember the twin towers
Temple of type
Issue 2, Winter 1990
St Bride Library is one of the world’s best sources of information about type design and…
Punk uncovered: an unofficial history of provincial opposition
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
British punk gave a sound, a voice and a visual currency to the disenfranchised and remote.…
Self-aggrandising, self-satisfied
Issue 38, Winter 2000
Brochures: Frost, Push, Elliott Peter Earls, the Office of CC …
Messy medium
Issue 64, Summer 2007
Social media is shifting message-making away from mass media and into the hands of multiple users.
Lost worlds
Issue 55, Spring 2005
Vernacular photography. Innocence regained? Or just another kind of fiction?
Your system sucks!
Issue 8, Autumn 1993
The flight from Modernism left a yearning for graphics that were rough, real, unaffected and…
Are you sure you need that new logo?
Issue 10, Autumn 1993
Graphic designers fill the world with a Babel of signs. Is it time we took them away again? By Ken…
Recent blog posts by anonymous designers
Walking in a nuclear winter land
13 December 2019
At your service
15 October 2019
Drawing up Modern man
5 December 2018
Invisible women in Australian graphic design
4 July 2018
Great display in Harlem
21 March 2018
Books received #30
6 November 2017
Characters in search of an emoji
6 May 2017
Ghosts of designbots yet to come
21 December 2016
Fileteado Porteño – past and present
7 July 2016
What design didn’t do
30 June 2016
Forging a new society
28 June 2016
More design for eating
7 January 2016
City of signs
15 July 2015
Retrogressive
2 June 2015
Accidental art sale
10 April 2015
Codex lives on as a book
12 March 2015
Beer signs in the grain belt
13 January 2015
Books received #11
7 November 2014
The trade that lost its way
14 May 2014
Graphic protests inspire laughter and hope
28 March 2014
Typographic freak-out
25 March 2014
Even further beyond Beck
16 September 2013
Two sides of propaganda
28 June 2013
Sinhala’s voluptuous letters
26 June 2013
Museum of lights
15 May 2013
Banham’s Melbourne letters
26 March 2013
A dentist’s unerring eye
17 January 2013
Ladies’ unmentionables
15 January 2013
Hand-made in Cambodia
21 November 2012
What are they thinking?
5 November 2012
Smoke bomb
20 August 2012
The notes may be fabricated
31 July 2012
Design for drugs in NYC
7 October 2011
Lost in space
28 July 2011
Comic serif
11 August 2010