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Twentieth-century Renaissance man
My generation grew up in awe of a handful of American designers. Pre-eminent among them…
Meet me in Provence
If photography had a Mecca, the annual Rencontres d’Arles in the south of France would…
Shouting from the shelves
Faber and Faber, the independent British publisher founded in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber (there was…
Consequent to the last detail
Looking at the kitchen mixers, hi-fi equipment and other products that Dieter Rams (b. 1932)…
The words of the prophets
Subway Art by photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant (Thames & Hudson, 1984) changed my…
The impact of Vorticism
Is it a sign of the growing acceptance of graphic design as a legitimate subject…
Red rags to the male chauvinist bulls
It is nearly 40 years since feminist hecklers reduced the comedian Bob Hope to silence…
Density, magic, genius and loss
Chris Ware’s comic strip was originally published in Chicago’s alternative New City paper and Ware’s…
Testament to tenacity
Hitler knew that without the Soviet Union threatening his flank, he could march on Eastern…
Toast modern
‘Typography is more a craft than an art – the graphic designer using type will…