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Waste not

Issue 98, Spring 2019

For many years Vaughan Oliver was the in-house designer for the 4AD record label, creating…

‘What other profession do you end up in where you learn so much about other people’s businesses than in graphic design? It’s remarkable. Clients will tell you everything. It’s like being a therapist. That’s really exciting. You never know what’s going to happen from one week to the next.’

The accessible elite

Issue 86, Autumn 2013

Feature

Linda Kwon reports on a design conference that aims to fight the ‘velvet rope syndrome’

An enquiring mind

Issue 85, Spring 2013

Review

Ken Garland (b. 1929) is something of an enigma in British graphic design. Not fitting…

Recent blog posts about Tony Brook

ModMag17: Part one

10 November 2017
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Photography, Typography, Visual culture

Sarah Snaith reports from the fifth annual Modern Magazine conference

The fifth annual Modern Magazine conference, initiated and curated by magCulture founder Jeremy Leslie, took…

Plus is more

7 December 2014
Graphic design, Posters, Reviews, Typography

The cover of Unit Editions’ Type Plus highlights the book’s arguments, writes Sarah Snaith. Designers…

Books received #9

21 July 2014
Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Photography, Reviews, Typography

The Typographic Universe, Strange Worlds, paper folding, Supernew Supergraphics and The Open Book Project

Here is a quick look at some titles that have recently arrived at Eye’s Shoreditch…

The power of type

22 November 2013
Reviews, Typography

Unit Editions’ book Type Only documents graphic design – from the late 1990s to the…

Collaboratively speaking

14 October 2013
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Posters, Reviews

A report from day two of the AGI Open conference at London’s Barbican.

Day two of AGI Open kicked off with insights and wisdom about ‘collaborative practice’, write…

Chat show

11 October 2013
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Typography, Visual culture

Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar report from day one of the AGI Open conference in London, where the theme was ‘dialogue’

London’s AGI Open set out to shun the standard conference show-and-tell format, and to bring…

AGI Open – the ‘graphic design World Cup’?

24 March 2013
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Illustration

The Alliance Graphique Internationale pulls out the stops for a two-day, student-oriented event at London’s Barbican this autumn

Last Wednesday saw a rare gathering of some of the UK’s most senior designers (David…

Type Tuesday: Forward to page 1

19 June 2012
Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Typography

Managing (Great) expectations with a mix of ‘Pecha Kucha and speed dating’

A thought-provoking evening at the Design Museum marked the launch of Page 1: Great Expectations, the…

Brit Insurance Design Awards

18 January 2011
Awards madness, Book design, Graphic design, Music design, New media, Technology, Visual culture

Bantjes, Shandy, Flipboard and E.Chromi make the (long) shortlist

London’s Design Museum announced the shortlist for this year’s Brit Insurance Design awards this morning…