Feature
Reputations: Neville Garrick
‘I won’t compromise my concept. If entertainment doesn’t contain information, then I don’t want anything to do with it.’
Out of town shopping
Though its public lettering reassures customers with poetry and fiction this shimmering mall is, at heart, a three dimensional shopping catalogue
Reputations: Piet Schreuders
‘I don’t want to know the canon, because it is completely irrelevant and transient. If you fight the canon you become a product of its system’
Visual journalism: magazines and technology
New technology has transformed the medium of magazines, and social diversity and fragmentation mean that a magazine’s appeal rarely crosses taste and lifestyle boundaries. So what is actually being sold in the stuff that surrounds the advertisements?
The modernist body
Images of the human form receive little analysis. An exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert museum explores approaches to the body in early German design.
A terrible beauty
The atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud has become the logo of annihilation
A New York state of mind
The design of The New Yorker has nearly always taken the approach that ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’, with a familiar layout and masthead. Does a face-lift jeopardise its relationship with its readers? Time to call in the Type Police
Postboxes
Photographer Jan Erik Posth’s collection of European postboxes provides the opportunity for a neat graphic enquiry