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Culture compass
Andrew Losowsky on the ‘nonsensical authority’ of the Approval Matrix
Googling the design canon
In the late 1980s, US designer and historian Martha Scotford set out on a mission to discover what might constitute a canon of graphic design …
Do it again
Jenny Grigg’s covers, literary but not literal, were perfect for Peter Carey. Which helped when she had to design them a second time
Shock tactics: Bazooka
Though inspired by UK punk, the Bazooka collective’s violent, sexy graphics spoke in a French accent
Pichação [EXTRACT]
The architecture of São Paulo, Brazil, is covered by a unique form of calligraphic graffiti
On the road
Think Don’t Think - a series of poetic graphical interventions on the zebra crossings of Paris
Artwork and play
Brian Knight’s lovingly detailed paintings of ships, planes and cars trace an elegiac path for postwar industry
New frontier
When art director Art Paul made the journey from Bauhaus to Hefner’s Playboy mansion, men’s mags became truly ‘Modern’.
Typographic tango
The journal Néon was a unique graphic expression of Surrealism
