Feature
Money. Magic. Light.
Factors of scale ensured a glittering take-off for two corporate identities. But what do they actually communicate?
Global City
Screens from a documentary about graphic design in four cities: New York, San Franscisco, London and Amsterdam
The Museum of the Ordinary
The exhibits are the entire contents of a swathe of blocks on downtown New York. A proposal and manifesto. By Michael Rock and Susan Sellers
Serious doodling
Working in the crash-prone pre-history of multimedia, Post Tool has a brand of graphic design that is closer to televsion
Fotonovels
Before the home video revolution, Fotonovels provided a graphic way to re-live the experience of Hollywood movies
Mandarin to Mao
The modern Maoist versions of traditional Chinese characters introduced ambiguity and confusion by deleting information
Branding
The Wieden & Kennedy agency provides big-name clients with the personal styles of cutting-edge graphic designers
The diaphanous machine
Designers can bring clarity and consistency to Web interfaces and find new ways to organise navigation
Pouchee’s lost alphabets
Few contempory display alphabets equal those of Louis John Pouchée for vivacity and invention
Meta’s tectonic man
In Erik Spiekermann’s hands, typographic design is a tool for rendering the world more accessible