Feature: Graphic design
Dafi Kühne: By his own hand
Swiss designer Dafi Kühne works wholly in traditional letterpress techniques with entirely contemporary results
Spassky Fischer: Concrete moves
The work of this prolific young French studio is founded on practicality and systems, while transcending such prosaic methods
‘As, not for’: The critique goes on
‘As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes’ is an itinerant exhibition of work by black designers whose legacy has been neglected for too long
Malika Favre: Gridlocked
A love of mathematics and geometry underpins the immaculate illustrations of Malika Favre
Studio Blup: Remixing the here and now
Dines’s Studio Blup represents a radical challenge to the monoculture that still dominates current design
Sophie Thomas: Campaigner
‘You need a creative or design-oriented brain to figure out what the system is and how to shift it. Designers are good at this.’
Elaine Ramos: The book designer
‘We overdose on communication, but “beautiful” design circulates only between the culturally literate.’
Milton Glaser: Design eminence
‘Buttons, flyers, posters, postcards, T-shirts and books. How primitive are the means we have to dissent. And yet I believe these modest tools can help change history.’
Michael Bierut: The designer’s designer
‘Online, everything arrives with equal weight … everything can have a logo, everything can have an identity, everyone can do it in an untutored way.’
Everyday people
Emma Thomas and Kirsty Carter’s Apfel, A Practice for Everyday Life, brings design into the art world, and makes design an art