Feature: Graphic design

 

NASA patches

Embroidered space travel patches, collected and appreciated by Eugene Dorr
 
The rules of the game

The rules of the game

For George Hardie, illustration is a problem-solving process: collecting looking and drawing with exactitude
 
Allan Fleming: The man who branded a nation

Allan Fleming: The man who branded a nation

At a pivotal moment in Canada’s history, Allan Fleming’s typographic designs for stamps, books, advertisements, logos and big civic projects shaped the look of the country, leaving a vital legacy
 
Machine head

Machine head

Fritz Kahn commissioned illustrators to realise his surreal pedagogical vision – mechanical metaphors for the human body.
 
Shock tactics

Shock tactics

America’s funky ‘altweeklies’ are a hotbed of zero-budget, attention-grabbing cover art direction.
 
Googling the design canon

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 …
 
South Bank show

South Bank show

The Royal Festival hall has regained the thoroughly English lettering of its origins in the Festival of Britain – on one side only
 
Reputations: Bob Gill

Reputations: Bob Gill

‘I’ve never had a problem with a dumb client. There’s no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.’ Interview by Patrick Baglee
 
Willem Sandberg: Warm printing

Willem Sandberg: Warm printing

The Dutch pioneer’s catalogues for the Stedelijk show a tactile use of sensual materials and experimental typography
 
Reputations: George Lois

Reputations: George Lois

‘You can’t research a big idea. The only ideas that truly research well are mediocre ideas. In research, great ideas are always suspect.’
 
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