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Reputations: Anthon Beeke
‘I don’t think I could have come out on the streets with these posters in Berlin, Paris, or London – not to mention America’
Look away
‘The South’, Seymour Chwast’s special civil rights issue of Push Pin Graphic, was a virtuoso display of graphic design authorship
Schism and reunification
Where there was once discord, there is now harmony, as design zealously embraces the made image. Adrian Shaughnessy analyses ‘this new hybrid – type-based yet infused with fluid and expressive qualities’
Political clout: Australian posters
Screenprints gave both activists and artists a means of direct expression
Art directing the opposition
Daniel Walsh, former US Marine, founder of Liberation Graphics and self-styled ‘communications therapist,’ uses the poster to argue for alternative points of view
Dr Leslie's type clinic
Through its publications and gallery, the Composing Room promoted the new American design
The history of interactivity
Interactivity is one of the central concepts of multimedia. Bob Cotton, co-author of The Cyberspace Lexicon, traces key stages in the development of our relationship with the screen
Big book, little buildings
In its first edition, this seminal book was a groundbreaking collision between architecture and graphic design, emphasising 'image' over 'form'
Reputations: Maira Kalman
‘I was out walking the dear dog and I saw 500 things that made me want to make art.’
Same name, different face
Can classic, remastered fonts retain the spirit of the ‘authentic’ original?