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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
Tightly packed
Owen Jones’s trademark design for biscuit tins has stayed the same for generations
Fry like a spy
The comic strip simplicity of Len Deighton’s Action Cook Book taught bachelors how to cook