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Darkness visible

Steven Heller

Amy Guip reconciles commercial image-making with a need to explore more personal themes
 

Gastrotypographicalassemblage

Lou Dorfsman’s mural for CBS’s cafeteria brought expressive typography to enviromental scale
 

Page creation minus the fuss

Nico Macdonald

Web editors are the hot property of the moment, but which ones make the best long-term investment?
 

Big ideas that built America

Steven Heller

In the 1950s and 1960s, American art directors led a creative revolution. Thier secret weapon was the Big Idea
 

Culture in a cold climate

Will Novosedlik

In the ‘post-intellectual’ era, four Canadians use their talents in the service of creative discourse and the act of reading
 
Reputations: Lorraine Wild

Reputations: Lorraine Wild

Louise Sandhaus

‘The space is configured to the work I want to do. Maybe it has to do with growing up in Detroit, where garages are the site of great creativity (both automotive and musical)’
 

Dumb

Will Novosedlik

Are designers who proclaim the end of print turning their backs on design's critical purpose and cultural role?
 

Techno craft

Julia Thrift

David James is a typographer with an exacting eye, who blurs the boundaries between graphic design and art direction
 

Invasion of the copy snatchers

Andrea Codrington

A project by J. Abbott Miller's Design Writing Research expands ancient and modern type into the third dimension
 

Read this aloud

Ursula Held

Pierre di Sciullo’s experimental alphabets interrogate the conventions that govern the way we read, write and talk