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Conference madness
It’s a messy hybrid of live chat show, summer camp, theatre and rock’n’roll
P. Scott Makela is wired
Does Minneapolis-based Makela’s electro-futurism embody the end of the 1980s or a new avant-garde?
Design is advertising #1: The whispering intruder
Advertising soaks into everything. It has become the texture of contemporary life. Graphic design has played a central part in this process. But does it have a viable role of its own?
Reputations: George Lois
‘You can’t research a big idea. The only ideas that truly research well are mediocre ideas. In research, great ideas are always suspect.’
Back after these messages: the No. 17 show
With Number Seventeen, their New York design practice, Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler have acquired a reputation for dancing letterforms and emotionally resonant, playful graphics that speak directly to TV viewers who haven’t yet turned into their parents
Visual cleaning in Athens
An ‘urban facelift’ challenges the Greek city’s visual mosaic
Experiments in publishing
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson’s Gaberbocchus Press was founded on the conviction that all the books they conceived together, wrote, designed and published should be “best-lookers.”
Spot the difference
Mass-market style has created an audience with an insatiable appetite for more of the same
We are a camera
The Douglas Brothers would much rather see their photographs in a magazine than on a gallery wall