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Julia Thrift

Recent articles by Julia Thrift

The Swastika as symbolIssue 16, Spring 1995
Review

                                                Littered with phrases such as ‘hypertrophied singularity’, and drawing deeply on semantic theory and philosophy…                        
We are not yet out of the woodFeature

                                    
Loops through the darknessFeature

                                    
When cheaper is just as goodFeature

                                    
Techno craftIssue 23, Winter 1996
Feature

                                            David James is a typographer with an exacting eye, who blurs the boundaries between graphic design and art direction            
Do-it-yourselfIssue 26, Autumn 1997
Feature

                                            Activists were not interested in design sophistication, but their publishing tools imposed their own urgent aesthetics            
Type fashion fusionIssue 22, Autumn 1996
Feature

                                            
	A stylist, a photographer and a typographer celebrate the look and feel of exceptional clothes            
Sweet smell of excessIssue 13, Summer 1994
Feature

                                            Perfume packaging must evoke the indescribable. It has its own designers, conventions and codes.            
8vo: type and structureIssue 37, Autumn 2000
Feature

                                            For fifteen years this UK practice has given typography a central place in graphic design            
Marks on paperIssue 15, Winter 1994
Feature

                                            Letterpress’s eclipse by digital typesetting has been a liberation for typographer Alan Kitching            
Reputations: Rudy VanderLansIssue 7, Summer 1992
Feature

                                            ‘The thing we have never done at Emigre is to second guess what the audience would like or be able to comprehend’            
Signs of troubleIssue 19, Winter 1995
Feature

                                            British designer David Crow uses his personal projects to question the authority of the graphic image. By Julia Thrift            
Why a nifty logo is no longer enoughIssue 14, Autumn 1994
Opinion

                                            
	Corporate identity’s success may also be its undoing. The fear of making mistakes has led to a bland sameness in corporate design            
How they lost the paper warIssue 11, Winter 1993
Review

                                                When Mary Blake, the paper expert at Greenpeace’s London office, stood up to ask a question…                        
In search of Barney BubblesIssue 6, Spring 1992
Feature

                                            He was a pioneer of British graphics, but he refused to sign his own work            
Typo PhotoIssue 4, Summer 1991
Feature

                                            
	London’s most progressive designers are working with a small group of photographers highly sympathetic to their aims            
Reasons to recycleIssue 3, Spring 1991
Review

                                                It is an uncomfortable fact, but most of what graphic designers help to create ends up…                        