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Sue Coe: eyewitness
The New York-based artist makes ferocious images as instruments of social change. Her timely new book is a searing indictment of animal butchery.
Don’t buy this
Graphic agitation hits the high street in an installation for Friends of the Earth that questions the material obsessions of global consumerism. By Rick Poynor
Overtures and psychotic symphonies
Title sequences of the 1950s and ’60s grabbed moviegoers with psychological insights, orchestral violence and some lessons learnt from the early pioneers of animation, for whom motion graphics, sound and story were inseparable
The far side
Clients can seem stubborn, ignorant, wilful and slow, yet some build a relationship of strong mutual respect with design practices.
Icons for the people
A new V&A display and a book trace the method of visualising data pioneered by Otto Neurath in the 1920s
Beyond typography
Fuse’s team of talented young type designers is on an inspired quest to ‘Make it new!’ But behind the talk about breaking open the bonds of language and reinventing the alphabet, what is the project really about?
Form follows attitude
Lars Muller’s dissatisfaction with design’s service role led him to set up his own publishing house
Self-propelled, self-made
Big books give KesselsKramer and Fuel an instant air of authority.
Machin Definitive UK postage stamps
Cock-ups appreciated by Paul Neale, Graphic Thought Facility
Pre-postmodernity
Does a small book from nearly 30 years ago encapsulate a ‘golden age’?