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An uncanny reality
Patrick Shanahan’s photographs, subjective, seductive and even threatening, invite us to follow him beyond unknown boarders.
They design themselves
Limited Language, Monika Parrinder, Colin Davies
A2’s work is based on conceptual rigour, a feel for print process and a unique flair for bespoke typefaces
Inclined to be dull
It may be the world’s most popular sans, but Helvetica has many deficiencies – not least its lack of real italics
The United Nations of Type
Look beyond the confines of the Latin alphabet, urges Johannes Bergerhausen of Decodeunicode.
Making visible the invisible
Can designers and scientists teach each other how to express new concepts in text and image?
Pesky illustrator
Mark Andresen is a graphic one-man-band, with deep roots in the VouDou of pre-Katrina New Orleans
The Initial Teaching Alphabet
An idealistic experiment to help children read with an augmented, phonetically consistent alphabet
Reputations: John McConnell
‘By wanting to be intelligent, it usually gets simpler and simpler. The creative process is paring back all the time. If you can’t defend it, get rid of it.That’s what turns me on. How simple can you make it? Usually, “creativity” means showing off to your peer group, and creativity without intelligence is as dumb as it comes.’