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Go-faster graphics

Jim K. Davies

Radical young designers changed the face of British design in the 1980s. A decade later, their inventions have been softened into easily identifiable styles endlessly recycled by the commercial mainstream
 

Hi-res hedonist

Jim K. Davies

Me Company make designs of fabulous compexity. The shape of screenlife to come or techno-kitsch?
 
Port: Prêt à porter

Port: Prêt à porter

John L. Walters

Jeremy Leslie, Port’s iPad app designer, explains his methods
 
Attacked by music, type and light

Attacked by music, type and light

Noel Douglas

Technology on tour. Noel Douglas talks to UVA’s Matt Clark about their sets for Massive Attack
 
Dark tools of desire

Dark tools of desire

Rick Poynor

Surrealism’s relationship with graphic design is still strangely unfulfilled. By Rick Poynor
 

Mystery and clarity

Adrian Shaughnessy

These children’s book illustrations captured moments of social history
 

The order of pages

Can graphic design reinvigorate the photographic monograph?
 

High and low (a strange case of us and them?)

Ellen Lupton

Designers take a superior view of vernacular typography. Is it time to come down from on high?
 

Type as entertainment

Rick Poynor

Why Not Associates are the wild boys of the British typographic scene … How do they get away with it?