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Reputations: Nadine Chahine
‘I wanted to discover if there was any value in simplification, in terms of legibility, and only research could tell me. This is where the science comes in; I needed numbers!’
Living and decaying in the plastic age
At every stage in the lifecycle of a package, design can add complications for recycling. Finding solutions requires industry-wide collaboration
Golden footsteps
A work of deep emotional power, or a set of elaborate pranks? A new book that recreates 100 iconic photographs raises multiple questions, writes Ed Park
A house that type built
Jason Godfrey, Dan Adams, John L. Walters
Type foundry House Industries – the subject of a hefty new monograph and a retrospective exhibition near Detroit – champions the joyful vulgarity of United States graphic arts. Jason Godfrey and Dan Adams pay tribute
Pleasure in the process
Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir are graphic designers who construct typefaces through mathematics, systems and experimentation, pushing hard at the boundaries of alphabetic form
Expressive geometry
Madeleine Morley, Gerald Cinamon, John L. Walters
Kabel, Rudolf Koch’s eccentric, geometric 1920s typeface, has been revived as a 21st century type family by Marc Schütz. By Madeleine Morley, with extracts from Gerald Cinamon’s book about Koch
Strategy is never enough
In these information-saturated, cash-strapped times, David Pye’s concept of ‘workmanship’ has much to teach us
From punch cutters to number crunchers
In the summer of 1983, a Stanford seminar became a milestone in the long transition from craft to code
Brand in the hand
In Melbourne, more than a century ago, a ‘printer’s fist’ inadvertently became one of the earliest corporate identities