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Reputations: Phil Baines
‘I could never subscribe to a particular way of doing things – I was always more pick ’n’ mix. I’d want to take what was good and alter it a little, or, if I thought the ideology was stupid, drop the ideology.’
Excitable hexagonal
Do the covers to the D&AD’s annuals – full of pencils, food, and covered in tactile stuff – tell us anything about the past 45 years?
Prototype propagandist
Rivadulla’s revolutionary poster art avoids socialist cliché. By Jan Middendorp
Talking pictures (Isotype)
By representing data in simple graphic form, Isotype anticipated modern information design.
The digital essence
Lexicon, by Bram de Does, is a type designer’s type design, par excellence.
Every frame counts
Whatever the genre – or budget – each element of Kyle Cooper’s film titles is a painstakingly executed piece of design
Documents of the marvellous
The authentic spirit of Surrealism lives on – in projects based on curious collections that celebrate the strange and numinous
Cheap Jack Flash
Fluorescent inks – costly, dramatic, even ‘vulgar’ – provided 1950s designers with a fresh challenge
Part of the process
Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of ‘relational aesthetics’ may give designers a new set of tools
LA art school
From Punk to production design: the widescreen career of Alex McDowell