Feature
Advertising: mother of graphic design [extract]
The word ‘advertising’ makes designers cringe. But it is central to the profession’s history and practice
Cyan [extract]
Form + Zweck, the Berlin design magazine, champions a critical Modernism. By refusing to compromise, its designers, Cyan, have created their own context
Willem Sandberg: Warm printing
The Dutch pioneer’s catalogues for the Stedelijk show a tactile use of sensual materials and experimental typography
The loneliest insight?
A broadsheet tackles Helvetica’s use and abuse with the eye of an outsider
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?