Opinion: Graphic design
What has writing got to do with design?
Design history, Graphic design, Agenda
We canonise the giants of design history as champions of total authorship, while overlooking the obvious message of their work
Whatever became of the content?
Book design, Graphic design, New media
Much new design is over-complex and confusing. An alternative current, sharing many of the same assumptions, aims for clarity
We’re in bras, lamps and breakfast cereal
Today’s corporation is very different from its predecessors. But the identities devised by designers are failing to mirror the changes
Words fail us
Serious discussions of the relationships between message, audience and graphic design are still handicapped by a limited lexicon. Yet our need for an enriched language is greater than ever.