Feature
Both ends burning
Fuel is a magazine, a design team, and a four letter word. Their style is tough, but ambiguous, too
Word art
In post-war art the visual and the literary have blurred. Typography is the point at which they meet
Let the object speak
The work of Dutch designer Karel Martens is rooted in materials rather than the ravishing image
Nova
Under the art direction of Harri Peccinotti and David Hillman, Nova redefined the woman’s magazine
The 30-second sell
Eight-page illustrated feature on paperback book cover design, including interviews with the Senate, Rex Ray, Angus Hyland
Think of your ears as eyes
Barbara Wojirsch and Dieter Rehm bring a mysterious beauty to the record label graphics of ECM
The look of Lolita
The author ‘emphatically opposed’ showing a girl on the cover. Most publishers ignored him. By Christopher Wilson
The digital wave
The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines. By Robin Kinross
This is not a cigar
Graphic design has always resisted analysis, but new critical approaches show there is more to understanding the medium than first meets the eye
Concrete poems just are
Concrete poetry never won full acceptance, despite the efforts of exponents all over the world. In the digital era its innovations are ripe for reassessment