Feature

 

Making masterworks

Andrea Codrington

Columbia’s classical sleeves of the 1960s and 1970s are pioneering examples of music graphics
 

On message!

Michael Worthington

Mass-market graphic activism with a contemporary relevance.
 

Stop worrying and learn to love the Web

Designers overcome their initial contempt for a low-resolution medium to bring clarity to the World Wide Web
 

Other spaces

Rick Poynor

Paul Elliman tells his students that “everything you know is wrong”, embracing error to find ideas where others see junk
 

Manipulation for the masses

Brett Wickens

Version 4 of Adobe Photoshop, the champion of photo processing software, comes with new tools for Web designers
 

Squaring the circle

Jessica Helfand

Paper wheel charts suggest a new way to display complex information
 

Do-it-yourself

Julia Thrift

Activists were not interested in design sophistication, but their publishing tools imposed their own urgent aesthetics
 

Eyes on the world

Steven Heller

They are obsolete now, but the picture magazines of the pre-TV era were breeding pens for today's visual narratives
 

Keep it simple

Max Bruinsma

Mieke Gerritzen brings her visual language of graphic emblems and clear-cut lines, colours and type to the Web
 

Lost in the city

John Warwicker

A CD-ROM may combine poetic imagery with virtuoso programming, but is it the right medium to convey meaning?