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Where the grid came from [EXTRACT]

Where the grid came from [EXTRACT]

One night in January 1959, I carefully peeled off a poster from outside the Zürich…
 
The universe in squares [EXTRACT]

The universe in squares [EXTRACT]

Raymond Chandler wrote: ‘Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.’

 
Gentleman’s relish [EXTRACT]

Gentleman’s relish [EXTRACT]

Gert Dumbar was always a social animal. He possessed an impish sense of humour, a twinkle in his eye, bags of charm, and he knew how to use them …

 
Just ink it

Just ink it

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s fearless handbills and posters are powerful, expressive statements of intuitive, spontaneous print activism …

 

Democracy is in the details

‘One more session and we’re outta here,’ said John Hockenberry. ‘We can all go back to…
 

New era

Era 05. World Design Congress. 22-28 September 2005, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Oslo and Copenhagen. Reviewed by Steve Rigley

 

You can’t bomb a virus

In the early 1990s at the Design Museum café, mentally flitting from the coffee-machine’s slick Gaggia…
 
Definitive enough for now

Definitive enough for now

Inglis manages to be authoritative while introducing the full range of topics and sub-categories that fit under the heading of graphic design.

 
Optimism and bias

Optimism and bias

Far more people have heard of Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas than have encountered the…
 
Images do the talking

Images do the talking

Seeing ↔ Making: Room for Thought is an inventive and challenging new project from the always interesting publisher Inventory Press

 
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