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Reputations: Bruce Mau
‘I think it is one of the paradoxical conditions of design authorship, that you have to be both producer and critic simultaneously. I can maintain a kind of double life.’
In my honey’s loving arms
R. Crumb’s portraits reveal a tender side to the self-confessed misogynist
Under the surface of style
Designers and critics alike reject style as shallow and meaningless. But they overlook the complex ways in which its codes are used by different social groups.
Wechlin-Tissot & Co brochure
Max Bill’s brochure for a Zurich medical supplier shows a less formal side to his Concrete Art
Reputations: Dan Fern
‘A lot of illustration sits very awkwardly alongside the contemporary digital typography scene. It can look naive, almost folksy’
8vo: type and structure
For fifteen years this UK practice has given typography a central place in graphic design
Mo’Wax
The urban swagger of this small label’s music is mirrored by its freewheeling ‘house style’. By Adrian Shaughnessy
Punk uncovered: an unofficial history of provincial opposition
British punk gave a sound, a voice and a visual currency to the disenfranchised and remote. Overlooked, uncelebrated and difficult – the output of the anonymous artworkers who packaged the vinyl spewed out by punk’s first waves captured the oppositional (and occasionally political) spirit of the time. By Russell Bestley and Ian Noble.
There is such a thing as society*
It is time to think again about design’s social function and the way it is determined by our culture.