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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?
Penguin science fiction covers
David Pelham’s covers for Penguin’s science fiction titles gave a frowned-upon genre a strong literary presence
Writing on the wall: The posters of James Victore
With a visual polemic of angry scrawls that stop pedestrians in their tracks, this committed New Yorker tackles Shakespeare, safe sex and racism in personal (frequently self-financed) projects that hammer home graphic design’s potential to make a difference