Feature: Visual culture
We Made This: Technical challenge
Sarah Snaith talks to Briar Levit, director of a new film on the history of graphic design
The anti-Rockwell
Blechman pioneered a less-is-more aesthetic. His scratchy shorthand expresses ideas with a punchy surprise
Living and decaying in the plastic age
At every stage in the lifecycle of a package, design can add complications for recycling. Finding solutions requires industry-wide collaboration
Crayon game
The unexpected craze for adult colouring books has created a bonanza for publishers. Can they keep it going?
A breath of fresh air
In postwar Milan, Swiss designer Lora Lamm brought flair and humour to her work for clients in industry and retail, capturing the optimistic spirit of the times
Olivier Kugler: bearing witness
This contemporary illustrator uses his ears and eyes – plus a camera, digital voice recorder, sketchbook, pencil, scanner and laptop – to document stories of exile, displacement and the complex reality of refugees’ lives
Time machine
Each summer since 1973, artist Tom Phillips has taken photos of the same twenty places in his South London neighbourhood. The resulting artwork – 20 Sites n Years – is both conceptual art and social history
I am a poster
David Crowley, curator of ‘The Poster Remediated’ at the Warsaw International Poster Biennale, examines some of the relationships that exist between posters and the human body
The thin controller
Progress bars have changed the way we engage with songs, films and stories
Wit, bad taste and loud type
The photos of legendary graphic designer Robert Brownjohn show an outsider’s view of 1960s London