Feature: Visual culture

 

We hardly knew you

Street-corner merchandising tries to remember the twin towers
 
Penguin crime

Penguin crime

Romek Marber’s 1960s paperback identity is a landmark of independent British design
 
Reputations: Jean Widmer

Reputations: Jean Widmer

‘Signage reflects both the complexity of space and the way a place is organised. And it is very satisfying’
 
General Idea: Infiltrate, infect and mutate

General Idea: Infiltrate, infect and mutate

Ignoring the boundaries between art and design, this Canadian trio worked in both fields with an eclectic mix of language, humour and commercialism
 
A designer and a one-man band

A designer and a one-man band

Cranbrook’s song and dance man goes back to college with a bang
 

Reputations: Terry Jones

‘I’m a creative director. I work with photographers. Years ago I said design is a piece of piss. Design is something that shouldn’t be complicated.’
 
Big subject, little pictures

Big subject, little pictures

Joe Sacco uses the comics medium to describe the lives of Palestinians
 
Laptop aesthetics

Laptop aesthetics

A crackly, digital approach informs one of three current design trends.
 
Look away

Look away

‘The South’, Seymour Chwast’s special civil rights issue of Push Pin Graphic, was a virtuoso display of graphic design authorship
 
Reputations: Maira Kalman

Reputations: Maira Kalman

‘I was out walking the dear dog and I saw 500 things that made me want to make art.’
 
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