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Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
The maverick composer’s album covers, by assorted hands, were provocative examples of rock art
Reputations: Rick Vermeulen
‘I don’t think anything designed should be considered as art. It’s not only about the experimentation with form. There is always a client’
Building a graphic language
From the 1930s to the 1960s, The Architectural Review's eclectic methods made it a landmark in magazine design
Not browsing but reading
Is there an alternative to scrolling text and gap-toothed HTML?
All you need is love: pictures, words and worship
Sister Corita Kent’s freewheeling assemblages of text and image provide a new perspective on the 1960s obsession with messages and media.
Towards a complex simplicity
In the face of global branding, designers are seeking inspiration from the everyday
Alchemy of layout
Walter Pamminger champions the potential of design to create content
Information visualisation
Modern-day map-making may be a way out of Web design’s stasis
The alchemy of interpretation
Neither downloading, promoting nor selling, Seemusic is about the age-old quest to experience sound as vision
Kit of parts
A newspaper is a giant kit of parts that gets assembled in different ways each day. Contemporary newspaper design is about trying to define how the kit should look and work. Drawing on examples from throughout the world, Simon Esterson examines the process