Opinion:
Editorial Eye 19 – Rick Poynor
The new typographer muttering in your ear – Agenda, Kevin Fenton
Mysterious absence at the cutting edge – Critical path, Design education, Graphic design, Liz Farrelly
Britain has many design stars and most of them are men. Yet very few young women want to be seen as feminists. That’s starting to change
Features:
Reputations: Josef Müller-Brockmann by Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin
‘I would advise young people to look at everything they encounter in a critical light … Then I would urge them at all times to be self-critical.’
Otto Neurath by Robin Kinross
Otto Neurath’s 1936 book was the fullest exposition of his vision as an international visual language
Enigma variations by Max Bruinsma
Studio Dumbar uses its posters for the Zeebelt Theatre in the Hague for anarchic type experiments
Branding as mythology by Will Novosedlik
Branding experts draw on centuries of myth-making to imbue products with emotional symbolism
Type play for kids by Steven Heller
It has taken decades for expressive typography to win acceptance in the world of children’s book
Signs of trouble by Julia Thrift
British designer David Crow uses his personal projects to question the authority of the graphic image. By Julia Thrift
Permanent innovation by Richard Hollis
With his ‘livre objets’ for the French book clubs, Pierre Faucheux invented a new genre
The space between the letters by Moira Cullen
Matthew Carter’s new identity for the Walker Art Centre is a typeface family with ‘snap-on’ serifs