Feature: Design history
Truman’s show
The
architectural lettering of these London pubs shows that enduring
visual identities can be built slowly and collectively. Elena
Veguillas tells the story
Empire of posters
A
recent Berlin exhibition and its hefty catalogue demonstrate the
enduring power of Japanese designer / artist Tadanori Yokoo, who
turns 90 this year
Type, art and The Beatles
Gordon
House was an invisible star of the 1960s, working with celebrated
galleries and musicians. James Alexander throws new light on his
interdisciplinary practice
Reputations: Rob Saunders
‘We are in a moment of fascination with everything analogue, especially for designers who spend all day working on screens for screens. For them, it’s refreshing and mind-opening and inspiring in some magical way I can’t fully explain.’ Interview: Eric Heiman [EXTRACT]
Where the wild type is
Working across record covers, logos, merchandise and stage design, Amaya Segura brings innovative typography to contemporary R&B, hip-hop and beyond. Interview by Holly Catford
Learning from Coney Island: Michael Doret and American lettering
When Norman Hathaway was asked to edit and design Michael Doret’s monograph, it was a chance to fill in some gaps in the history of illustrative lettering [EXTRACT]
Reputations: Margaret Calvert
‘If I look back at my beginning and everything, it’s learning on the job. You teach yourself and you pick up things and you look and you research – and it happens.’ Interview by John L. Walters and Simon Esterson. Portrait by Philip Sayer
Mark Holt: Games, set and dispatch
The title page credit for Munich ’72: The Visual Output of Otl Aicher’s Dept XI reads ‘Researched, written, edited, designed and published by Mark Holt.’ Interview by John L. Walters
My friend David King
The book David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is a comprehensive account of the work of a unique figure in graphic design history. Here Richard Hollis, witness to King’s development as designer, artist, collector and pioneering author-designer of dazzling books of social and political history, recalls his friend and fellow designer. By Richard Hollis
Jacqueline Casey. Science and design
Jacqueline Casey was instrumental in developing what became known as the MIT Style. By Elizabeth Resnick