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Bitworld
Digital archeologist Jim Boulton explores the creative history of computer technology
Open up the future
As São Paulo prepares for the 2014 AGI Open, Cláudio Ferlauto argues that design education in Brazil is endangered by new priorities
The retoucher’s accidental art
The reworked press photos now being discarded are unique objects and compellingly strange images. Raynal Pellicer has a collection
In the right place
In this extract from his book, Gerald Cinamon explains how he brought integrated book design to Penguin – first at his kitchen table in the 1960s; later as chief designer
An Atlas of Typeforms
As a sidebar to ‘Quiet man of letters’, Simon Esterson talks about his early encounters with this celebrated book by Alan Bartram and James Sutton
Well fed in the West End
Ardizzone’s menus evoked a mid-century world of food-loving Londoners
Sticky business
The dead-wrapped Tunnock’s Tea Cake is both hipster treat and Scottish design classic
Leftovers with a bad taste
In the past century the use of ‘trade characters’ built brand loyalty while reinforcing stereotypes