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Content includes:
Framing the evidence of war by Rick Poynor
The artful charm of the public notice – Monitor, Rob Giampietro
Features:
Better than the real thing? by Steven Heller
Character studies by John L. Walters
One week in pictures by Rick Poynor
Flight of the imagination by Frederico Duarte
Reputations: Kathy Ryan by Liz Danzico
The view from here by Keith Miller
Art and art direction – Kuchar Swara by John L. Walters
Art and art direction – Jens Gehlhaar by Deborah Littlejohn
Art and art direction – Thomas Lenthal by Véronique Vienne
Art and art direction – Daniel Eatock by John L. Walters
Not all black and white by Sean O’Toole
Do they know it’s communication? by Bob Wilkinson
Reviews:
The Transformer: Principles of Making Isotype Charts
Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field
The Floating World: Ukiyo-e
Pioneers of Spanish Graphic Design
Seymour: The Obsessive Images of Seymour Chwast
Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model
Eighty Years of Book Cover Design
A Book about Innocent: Our Story and Some Things We’ve Learned
Penguin by Illustrators
Women of Design
elles@centrepompidou
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2009
Bibliographic
Notations 21
Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.