Feature
Reputations: Marian Bantjes
‘I’ve come close to working with a couple of agencies for very big brands, but either the money isn’t there or the agency just has a stupid idea that I’m not interested in working on. Like they want type with a bunch of bullshit curlicues coming off it. Yawn. Go away.’
Buying into the Norm cosmos
The Swiss practice’s typefaces are quirky, oddly popular, and deceptively simple – also a critical response to neutrality
Modern method
As the Design Museum launches a retrospective of Wim Crouwel’s work, Kerry William Purcell interviews the Total Design (TD) co-founder.
Little, British…
With contributors such as Ballard and Paolozzi, Ambit is a literary magazine that has always punched above its weight
Lessons from an abandoned fish factory
This project showed MA students at Central Saint Martins how design can work in the ‘real world’
Adventures in motion pictures. Frozen fire
‘It’s like a game of rock-paper-scissors, in which the flicker of film melts the frozen photograph.’
Unkle’s erotic box
Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones create an identity for James Lavelle’s ‘faceless’ project
What the client needs
US designer George Tscherny talks about his 56 years working with the School of Visual Arts.
Classical crossroads
Peter Quantrill, Mike Dempsey, Philip Sheppard
Design meets serious music: long programme notes, small budgets and ‘de-averaging’