Content includes:
Opinion:
Left out of the frame by Rick Poynor
Features:
Yin and yang by Matthew Carter
Music design special issue
Sound and vision by John L. Walters, the editor
Attacked by music, type & light by Noel Douglas
Classical crossroads by Peter Quantrill, Mike Dempsey, Philip Sheppard
Make music visible by John L. Walters
One man brand? by Adrian Shaughnessy
Formal lawlessness by Eric Heiman
Grab the hook by Jane Cheng
Reputations: Alex Steinweiss by Steven Heller
Pack shots
Vaughan Oliver’s Minotaur by Vaughan Oliver
Unkle’s erotic box by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
Every shop is a gallery by Kate Moross
Interview with Dan Fern by John L. Walters
All her own invention by John L. Walters
Design + music = magic by Fred Deakin
Scribble and strum by Andrew Losowsky
Reviews:
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations
Lanfranco Bombelli: US Trade Center Graphics in Europe
Backing into Forward: A Memoir By Jules Feiffer
TYPO Berlin 2010, ‘Passion’
The Story of Graphic Design
Beautiful Evidence
Magnificent Maps
Uncorporate Identity
The Best German Book Design 2009
Calligraffiti: The graphic art of Niels Shoe Meulman
Wine Labels
Roman Cieslewicz
Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
This article is part of my ongoing effort to spotlight the unsung heroes of design history. I'm especially passionate about sharing voices and designs that have been overlooked or forgotten. In this piece, I focus on the work of 1980s American graphic designers, in particular, the women who broke boundaries and shaped American visual culture.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Poster Design, Regional Histories
The best poster designs from Die besten Plakate des Jahres 1956 with a translated foreword by Jakob Rudolf Welti. Featuring the work of Herbert Leupin, Carl B. Graf, Carlo Vivarelli and Emil Ruder.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Studios & Collectives
Gerstner, Gredinger + Kutter's advertisments for Merkur and the problem of ideographs, with a translated article by Masaru Katzumie from Graphic Design 15, April 1964
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