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Unclassifiable label
This swiss company has pioneered inventive solutions to the practical and aesthetic challenges of "branding" a radical programme of recordings
Pop music art
Whether technology threatens the death of the album sleeve or signals a new era, there is no lack of spectacle as music design goes supernova
Optimize and dupe
A culture of forgetfulness and suspicion provides the ideal conditions under which our daily routines can be read for signs of weakness
Self 1: Self-expanding
When a practice goes live with its own website, the lines between sales pitch, culture, publishing and ads get blurred. But ask a search engine for designers and you end up with branding or blandness. Maybe self-indulgence is the best policy
‘Femicide’ posters
300 murders near the Ciudad Juárez sweatshops provoke a graphic ‘shout’
Land of Logos
For Britain’s public institutions, corporate image-building plays a central role in the marketing mix
Type fashion fusion
A stylist, a photographer and a typographer celebrate the look and feel of exceptional clothes
Techno-orientalism, digital fetishism
A recent festival of new film-making showed what happens to creativity when designer/directors \'orientalise\' their digital tools
Entranced by motion, seduced by stillness
New media is undergoing the kind of definition print went through centuries ago. A meditation on the status of moving and static typography