Review: Information Design
Book of the mag of the moment
IL is the monthly supplement of the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. Since…
Design culture with constraints
Until recently, everyday commercial graphic design from East Germany was largely…
Making sense of a complex ideal
Simplification is an ideal we think we aspire to, whether we are talking about the…
Ring-bound to rule them all
Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines (Unit Editions, £75) follows Unit Editions’…
Elegantly nerdish
Cuneiform (the name means ‘wedge-shaped’) was, as far as these things can be…
Beck and beyond
Harry Beck’s underground map must be the most celebrated, discussed and fetishised…
Glorious transit
Let’s face it, graphic design is short of real drama. There are no good design roles…
Source code for a design revolution
Processing, an open-source programming language and environment for creating…