Opinion
The canon, aimed at your back
GenPrag’s T-shirts celebrate the most emblematic of twentieth-century graphic design heroes. So let’s have one for Will Burtin. Critique by Rick Poynor
Risk and ritual
Anne Harild’s work offers a challenge to the unthreatening norms of British illustration
Is type design teaching losing its soul?
Formulaic, modular approaches threaten the chemistry of the master-apprentice model.
Lyrical approach to programmes
From Harry Woodrow, creative director, Multistorey, London
Phil Baines and Typography Now
Book design, Typography, Letters to the editor 1
A letter from Rick Poynor
In passing: Obit
This American blog-mag reminds us that obituaries are about lives lived. Critique by Rick Poynor
Riches and embarrassment
A book of Swiss competition winners makes a virtue of its cold and awkward design. Yet if the jury seeks debate, as it claims, it must be prepared to explain its decisions. Critique by Rick Poynor
I have nothing to declare but my networking skills
Creative genius’ is so last millennium. What design students want – and need – is skill in collaborative online technology
Too gaudy for words
Independent’s new clothes do nothing to establish a once elegant paper as a vital force. Critique by Rick Poynor