Feature
The impossibility of neutrality
Seclusion is not an option in a global culture where information, money and images move mountains and ignore boundaries.
Dismantling the Basel principle
The freewheeling global agenda of Müller+Hess both destroys and revives the typographic traditions of their home town.
E pluribus unum
An inquiry into myriad associations originating from this most abundantly occurring symbol in our writing: that fifth sign of our Roman ABC.
Typographica
Herbert Spencer’s magazine, a fusion of Modernism and eclecticism, was one of the most remarkable journals to emerge from British cultural publishing
A grammar of ornament
Introducing the ultimate design award: GTF’s Paul Neale and Andy Stevens display the Owen Jones Memorial Trophy, photographed by Angela Moore
Lessons in printing trade journalism
For one issue, under Jan Tschichold’s stewardship, a monthly trade journal, Typographische Mitteilungen, became a beacon for radical typography.
What you see is how you think
A graduate student competition resulted in hybrids of browser and search engine that redraw and re-invent the fundamentals of “surfing the Web”
Travellers’ Tales
A global Esperanto of icons, warning signs on cardboard boxes speak a visual language that leaves no room for misunderstanding
Stories unfolding in time and space
With a revival of journalistic visual essays in US magazines, illustrators are once again becoming integral contributors to the editorial mix
In every home an architect
Two government booklets, Space in the Home and Metric House Shells, endorse Modernist concepts of good design for the public wellbeing