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1057
In the Traffic Signs Regulations of 1982, code 1057 refers to the road marking for…
The theatre that Swarte built
On April 30 1995, the Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte was miserably tossing around on his…
Relax and you’ll be swept away
Where to start with a book like The Floating World: Ukiyo-e? There is a tendency…
Transforming data into human stories
Modern pictograms, icons, scientific illustrations and graphic user interfaces owe a lot to the work…
History is made of the typical
Faced no doubt by a plethora of daunting decisions – who to include, which countries…
The designer as programmer
‘Swiss’ is still a style. In the crudest terms, the style was, and is, Helvetica…
Typonauts, start your quest here
So Type Navigator, curated by Jan Middendorp and the Barcelona-based studio TwoPoints.Net (which, with Victionary…
Less made bigger
An exhibition of product design presents its curators with a challenge – showing objects on…
Beyond the gimmick age?
SVK is the first comic published by London design studio BERG (best known for their…
Studio scrutiny
Web 2.0 has done strange things to graphic design. It has rapidly popularised the discipline…