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Mags out for the lads
British men’s magazines rely for sales on female flesh. Harmless fun, “post-feminist” irony, or a desperate ploy to turn back the social clock?
Read this aloud
Pierre di Sciullo’s experimental alphabets interrogate the conventions that govern the way we read, write and talk
Reputations: Dan Fern
‘A lot of illustration sits very awkwardly alongside the contemporary digital typography scene. It can look naive, almost folksy’
The portable art space
Designers who collaborate with artists and curators on catalogues must negotiate a complicated web of interests
Sue Coe: eyewitness
The New York-based artist makes ferocious images as instruments of social change. Her timely new book is a searing indictment of animal butchery.
The designer as author
Graphic authorship is taken for granted by many design theorists and it is gaining ground within practice, too. But the idea has received little sustained examination. What does it mean and what is really possible?
Darkness visible
Amy Guip reconciles commercial image-making with a need to explore more personal themes
The digital wave
The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines. By Robin Kinross
Designing heroes
Every era creates heroic imagery that conforms to its specific needs
Reputations: Hans-Rudolf Lutz
‘I am addicted to teaching. I have a compulsion to explain the world to others, and to have it explained to me again and again by the students’