Feature
Reputations: Matthew Carter
“Type design had been seen as a brave but arcane business that requires a lifetime’s dedication. I’m happy that notion has gone”
Reputations: Alexander Liberman
‘I think the term “art director” is the greatest misnomer. There’s no art in magazines unless you are reproducing works of art.’
Reputations: Rudy VanderLans
‘The thing we have never done at Emigre is to second guess what the audience would like or be able to comprehend’
Reputations: Roman Cieslewicz
‘Posters are dying out. They need strong themes, which at present they lack. As a form of communication, they belong to another age’
Adobe unpacks suitcase rival
Symantec’s Macintosh font handler, Suitcase, has had a radical overhaul, but so has Adobe Type Manager Deluxe
Angela Lorenz
A Berliner’s work finds parallels between laptop music and design. By Adrian Shaughnessy
Typotranslation
In a typographic tour de force, Richard Hamilton has turned Duchamp’s notes for the Large Glass into printed form
Day-Glo mind blow
Psychedelia hit late 1960s London in an explosion of silk-screen colour
Cultural chameleon
The German publication Shift! takes familiar signs from the world of image consumption and reconfigures them for its own purposes. The changing format, from disk to book to board game, is an essential part of its identity
Design in the age of digital reproduction
‘Multimedia’ may well be one of the most overused words of the 1990s. What does it mean for designers, what has been achieved so far and where are we heading?