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City of words
LED and LCD display texts intensify our image of the modern city as an electrical field. New technologies allow these letterforms to appear on almost any surface, from billboards to the windows and walls of buildings to the sides of buses and even clothing. What kind of writing is this? Is this typography?
In any colour so long as it’s white
Why does Mexican advertising look nothing like the Mexicans?
Smartest letterer on the planet
Chicago’s comic book hero has a finely tuned gift for hand-lettering
The producer as author
For Toronto designer Bruce Mau, graphic design
more than mere design. He sees his work as a way of exploring
ethical, cultural and philisophical issues. Should we rethink our
ideas of authorship?
Marked by time
Two catalogues reveal much about stencil-making in Germany and the US in the mid-twentieth century, while offering clues to the industry's future in the decades following their publication.
Vaughan Oliver’s Minotaur
This Pixies box set was a chance to make brand new artwork with a student team from UCA
Re-tooling the culture for an empire of signs
‘Creative destruction’ and synthesis in the rapidly changing subcontinent
The tenth pioneer
Cipe Pineles was a design innovator. Why, when the history came to be written, was she left out?