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West coast latitudes
Los Angeles is the perfect environment for the literate, intelligent work of a loose cadre of graphic designers working in education, commerce and culture
Reputations: Adrian Frutiger
‘I was fortunate. Early in life, I understood that my world was a two-dimensional one. At sixteen I knew that my work would be in black and white.’
Reputations: Peter Saville
‘This is a post-design era. It’s deliberately going against all those things that were canonised in the 1980s and are now exhausted.’ Interview by Rick Poynor
Back into battle
Nicholas Blechman’s ’zine is a barbed response to contemporary US politics
The shape of the heart: I'm all yours
The heart represents sacred and secular love: a bloodless sacrifice
Darkness visible
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