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Bring me the head of Nelson Mandela
Activist; fugitive; prisoner; icon: the evolving face of a famous name
Reputations: Malcolm Garrett
‘I figure it’s my job to be this kind of blinkered believer. You know: I am the new futurist, I will live in the technological world.’
Reduced Eden: gardens and flowers
Scopophilic horticulture is back with a vengeance. Photographers and designers strive to represent raw nature in the form of outdoor chill-out spaces: sublimated eroticism for the consuming classes, or a canonic celebration of the persistence and transience of beauty?
Multiple meanings
Uwe Loesch’s posters have the linguistic subtlety and precision of conceptual art. They demand attention, then release their significance bit by bit.
Digital type decade
The sound and fury of ‘radical’ typeface design associated with the early days of PostScript have quietened into a purposeful, prolific hum. There’s a new order of craft and and invention, driven by corporate culture, nostalgia and the demands of the screen.
Reputations: J. Abbott Miller
'We could be more aware of the civility of design, of how it can be constructive in a poetic sense, not just like a sneeze of capitalist excess’
Marks on paper
Letterpress’s eclipse by digital typesetting has been a liberation for typographer Alan Kitching
Compare and contrast
With a CD-ROM based on its legendary lettering archive, Central Saint Martins has created a new tool and resource