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How hip-hop changed the way things look
I have to admit I’m not the greatest fan of Hip-Hop so it’s a bit…
The artist behind Norman Bates
The artist Edward Hopper was said to have been ecstatic when told that Alfred Hitchcock…
Art direction unknown
What makes a photo art? It helps if you encounter it in some sanctioned art-viewing…
Aicher’s Heroic Aspirations
When the German designer Otl Aicher died in 1991, a particular kind of graphic design…
The Subversive Arts Of Crafting
For those familiar with the alternative craft movement, the mid-sized project manual Making Stuff may…
The cultured sensibility of Cipe Pineles
Cipe Pineles? Say it Sea-pea Pin-ell-ess; she’s credited with being America’s first influential female art…
A renaissance man's mission
Is John Maeda the new millennium’s successor to David Carson? Or the Leonardo da Vinci…
Heavy breathing at the crystal goblet
‘Graphic Design & Reading will be assigned reading for my graduate students this fall,’ announces…
Light and shade at the picture house
The work of conceptualist photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto explores notions of ‘comparison and similarity’. You might…
A million stories in the naked city
The Light Surgeons’ LDN-Redux, which premiered in São Paulo in July, is a 35-minute audiovisual…