Feature
Form follows performance
Richard Saul Wurman, FAIA, is an architect, cartographer and the author and designer of more than 60 books. He founded the TED conferences, which “focus on the merging & converging of the fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design”. Wurman coined the term “Information Architecture” in 1976 when he was chairman of the national convention of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and devised the theme “The Architecture of Information”.
The decriminalisation of ornament
Spurned and marginalised for more than a century, decoration is enjoying a guilt-free renaissance
Tangible digital (intro)
How can we make the virtual more physical while bringing emotion into the digital domain?
10,000 one offs
Field’s 10,000 ‘illustrations’ for SEA’s GF Smith paper swatch give a new dimension to variable data printing
On message
Content is king at Nicolas Bourquin’s Onlab, but its editorial focus incorporates visual delight and conceptual ingenuity.
Set the letters free
Australian artist Rosalie Gascoigne turned discarded packaging type into ‘stammering concrete poetry’
Practice and Process
In a short time, Eric Olson’s highly focused type foundry has won both peer acclaim and high-profile clients
In the neighbourhood
John Ridpath profiles three design practices who work with local clients: Maddison Graphic; Mark Gowing Design; and Bigger Than Giants
Roadshows and rickshaws
Folk images help BBC World Service promote its 21st-century virtues to a rural Indian audience
Visions of Joanna
For the first edition of ‘An Essay on Typography’, Eric Gill used his new serif font in the manner of a scribe