Feature
Paper tigers
Deborah Burnstone describes Fedrigoni’s inspirational workshops for secondary school art and design teachers
Learning on location
Linda Kwon looks at ways to learn about type beyond the conventional classroom.
Told in pictures
Wordless picturebooks form a corner of children’s literature in which illustrators and artists tell stories with images alone.
Puffins on the plate
How the Russian revolution – plus new technology – led to a colourful and radical change in children’s book publishing.
Go with the data flow
Dutch studio Lust mixes digital space with physical reality, playing fast and loose with the conventions of interaction design.
Milan’s anarchic Modernist
Alessandro Colizzi explores the Futurist past of Bruno Munari, the eclectic, prolific designer-illustrator of Mussolini’s Italy.
Screen prints
Recently discovered posters for the RCA Film Society provide fresh perspective on the intimate relationship between graphics and cinema in the 1950s and 60s.
Reputations: Chris Dixon
‘I sometimes liken art direction to film directing. They start with a script, basically just words on white paper, and they read it and start to imagine and visualise it. You can do it a thousand different ways.’
Old school layout
Every fortnight, art director Tony Rushton and editor Ian Hislop lay out Private Eye in a way that’s hardly changed in 50 years