Issue 50

Opinion

The learning brand
The learning brand
Rick Poynor
Abstract covers give an identity to this ambitious book series. Critique by Rick Poynor

Features

Abbar: building bridges
Paul Khera
Has Yassar Abbar developed the Arab world’s answer to Univers?
Common Knowledge
John O'Reilly
Cyberspace's souvenir aesthetics
The loneliest insight?
Alice Twemlow
A broadsheet tackles Helvetica’s use and abuse with the eye of an outsider
The meanings of type
Steven Heller
The back-stories, informed by trends, cults, philosophies and nationhood
Pre-postmodernity
Adrian Shaughnessy
Does a small book from nearly 30 years ago encapsulate a ‘golden age’?
Štorm: living history
Petra Černe Oven
The unbearable lightness of being a type designer in Prague
Cinematic shorthand [EXTRACT]
Matt Soar