Feature
Adventures in motion pictures. Narrative arc
Editorial photographer Lauren Greenfield on the jump from ‘essay form’ to story-telling
Adventures in motion pictures. Aerial ballet of upholstery
Matthew Donaldson’s high-speed ‘still life’ photoshoot with GTF for Kvadrat at Pinewood
Illuminated thought
The practice is said to ‘signal a break with the past’ but GTF has an unforced ‘style’ that is impossible to copy
Vision of a future that never was
This radical, well designed plan sought to turn grimy war-torn London into a Modernist Utopia
Reputations: Cal Schenkel
‘They were Frank’s identities, and he controlled them … I was really just satisfying these various concepts.’
Reputations: Commercial Type
John L. Walters, Simon Esterson
‘There has been typography on the Web for its entire existence, because there are words, and where there are words there is typography … Some people believe that there is going to be a radical change in the process of reading because of webfonts. Actually, no.’
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