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Designers are only human
‘Beyond Change’, a wide-ranging conference in Basel, Switzerland, gave voice to subjects often ignored within design discourse.
By Katie Evans and Gabriela Matuszyk.
Thursday 8 March 2018 was International Women’s Day, marking the end of a significant twelve…
Another look at British identity
The Bus is part a then-and-now portrait portfolio, part autobiography, part essay on documentary photography…
Sharp thinking takes the prize
The latest Charles Nypels Prize for typography was awarded last November to Erik van Blokland…
Zen and the art of design
Oullim, the keyword of the Icograda Millennium Congress, is a Korean word meaning “great harmony”…
Impressions of another time
In an attempt to re-assess the foundations of today’s electronic type design, Fred Smeijers went…
Fuse's envelope comes unstuck
The suffix ’94 seems to suggest that the organisers of the Fuse conference expect to…
Face to face with the Afrikan written tradition
Contemporary graphic and typographic design histories are mostly America-centric or Euro-centric. Despite a few books…
Recalling the Vignelli experience
‘In the early 1950s,’ begins Massimo Vignelli in the first chapter of this visual monograph…
Larger than life itself: 2x4 at SFMOMA
It takes a certain kind of designer to turn a 600 square foot museum gallery…
Political imagery re-examined
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…