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Slender and serious, Back Cover is emerging as a Gallic platform for a resolutely non-American view of design

31 January 2020
Photography, Typography, Visual culture

In the early 1950s, Swiss designer Gérard Ifert walked the streets of Paris on quiet Sundays, taking pictures of the colourmen’s shopfronts

The ‘designer as photographer’ is a trope that has been much explored in articles, books…

26 January 2016
Brand madness, Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Type Tuesday

Logo Modernism, DixonBaxi, Cries of London, deValence and No Words Posters

Here are a few books that caught our attention in recent weeks. Logo Modernism (Taschen…

1 March 2011
Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Typography

Back Cover signals an allegiance to graphic design as a serious endeavour

In his latest Web-only Critique, Rick Poynor looks at the French graphic design and typography…