Feature: Illustration
‘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
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.’
News cycle
Italian designer Francesco Franchi brings magazine finesse to the world of daily newspapers
The enigma of Thérèse Moll
This young designer is credited with introducing Swiss typography to MIT
Lovable loser
A daring approach to sports journalism earned the short-lived Jock magazine a place in design history
Pulling back the curtain
Published by the Communist Women’s League, Ty i Ja [You and I] was an ambitious 1960s title that brought the outside world to its Polish readers
Two-colour haikus
Banks & Miles art directed Which? magazine, the Consumers’ Association’s flagship title and its covers. John Miles talks to Paul Harpin
Liberté, égalité, typography
Serge Ricco, creative director of l’Obs, has shown this word-driven, left-wing French weekly the power of expressive type and images