Feature
Last things last
It’s not a case of ‘us and them’! Ken Garland addresses an issue left unsaid in his 1964 First Things First manifesto: an acknowledgement of the client’s essential role in graphic design
Miss Fixit
Tina Roth Eisenberg never had a business plan. But all the things she dreams up – the Swissmiss blog, ‘creative mornings’, stick-on tattoos – pay off. By Steven Heller
Postmodern jam session
Jan Middendorp recalls Fuse, the type ‘magazine’ that opened up (and put the lid on) a transient era of adventurous type design from small digital foundries
Rethinking Lubalin
As his book on Herb Lubalin – the first in almost 30 years – goes to press, Adrian Shaughnessy explains his change of heart about the US typographer
Street life
Bremen’s street magazine Die Zeitschrift der Strasse is a social project that benefits its student publishers as much as its homeless vendors. By Nick Kapica
Free for all
In designing the Ubuntu type family, Dalton Maag had to produce faces for print and screen in thirteen styles and numerous non-Latin languages – all under scrutiny from an online audience of millions. By John Ridpath
Reputations: Massimo Vignelli
‘I was always seeking to affect the lives of millions of people – not through politics or entertainment but through design. I strive to raise the bar a few inches, taking the commonplace and improving it.’
Here be monsters
The signage design for Carlsbad, New Mexico, an underground site to be sealed until the year 12,000 AD, is a genuine matter of life and death.
Remembering a graphic artist
Alan Fletcher’s editorial design was informed by craft skills and a highly original way of thinking
Fighting AIDS with pictures and words
South African health campaigns dominate the political landscape