Feature: Critical path
Two cheers for publishing
A two-volume book packed with graphic design history is a visual blockbuster, but does little for scholarship. By Rick Poynor
Googling the design canon
In the late 1980s, US designer and historian Martha Scotford set out on a mission to discover what might constitute a canon of graphic design …
If the image of the text … has more value than its content …
With visual culture triumphant and content marginalised, how can typography be defined?