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Reputations: Peter Saville

Rick Poynor

‘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

Back into battle

Dan Nadel

Nicholas Blechman’s ’zine is a barbed response to contemporary US politics

Designing heroes

Steven Heller

Every era creates heroic imagery that conforms to its specific needs

The shape of the heart: I'm all yours

Louisa Young

The heart represents sacred and secular love: a bloodless sacrifice

Warhol in London

Jonathan Jones

Warhol in London: a pop fantasy made real on billboards

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