Feature
Tune out, dive deep, read on
Riposte magazine’s innovative format, diverse contents and clean design challenge the formulaic mainstream. Meg Carter interviews its founders, Danielle Pender and Shaz Madani
The thin controller
Progress bars have changed the way we engage with songs, films and stories
Wit, bad taste and loud type
The photos of legendary graphic designer Robert Brownjohn show an outsider’s view of 1960s London
Colouring in the city
Camille Walala’s exuberant, colourful designs for the Splice Post building bring warmth and vitality to London’s Old Street
Killing joke at the expense of history
Swissted’s typographic homages turn Modernist design history into hollow commodities for a new ‘blank generation’
The case of Romek Marber
The Polish-born graphic designer behind Penguin’s ‘Marber grid’ helped to define British postwar graphic design with work of great power and originality. His work can be seen in a touring exhibition, now in Krakow. Interview by John L. Walters. Portrait by Philip Sayer
Face in the crowd
Amid the rush of modern gadgetry, Kuchar Swara’s Sekford watches stand out because they are, paradoxically, timeless
Stamped in the memory
The Gentle Author’s book about East London print and envelope specialists the Baddeley Brothers demonstrates the very crafts it celebrates
London Letters
Philip Sayer photographs lettering on the streets of London in this alphabetical compendium
Counter intuition
A short type design course will never turn you into a type designer. But it may make you a better typographer