Feature
The quiet confidence of Tomoko Miho
The influence of three continents underpins the meticulous work of this underrated Japanese-American graphic designer. By Elizabeth Resnick [EXTRACT]
The creative anarchist
Printer, poet, designer and publisher Dennis Gould interweaves the personal with the political in his clamorous, intuitive letterpress work. By Rick Poynor. [EXTRACT]
The power of physical books
Sonya Dyakova has a way with words, ideas, space and type. By Mark Sinclair [EXTRACT]
Artificial idiot: Puzzling answers to nonexistent questions
Jonathan Hoefler experiments with AI to create what he calls ‘Apocryphal Inventions’. By Marian Bantjes / Eye Editors [EXTRACT]
Artificial idiot: Deep fake, pink fake
Pum Lefebure’s Design Army made AI ‘space tourism’ landscapes for an adventurous client. By Marian Bantjes / Eye Editors [EXTRACT]
Artificial idiot: Pegasi, people and golden warriors
Marian Bantjes makes collages using multiple AI images [EXTRACT]
Artificial idiot
Unpredictable, cliché’d, wonderful, neither artificial nor intelligent– is AI the dumbest new kid on the block or the future of illustration? Marian Bantjes explores the weird world of text-to-image generators [EXTRACT]
Reputations: Brian Collins
‘The way I see it, problem-seeking is the yin to the yang of problem-solving. Solving is narrow and practical. Seeking is expansive and brimming with possibility. Solving asks “What’s wrong?” and then tries to fix it. Seeking asks “What if?” and then shows how.’ Interview by Louise Sandhaus [EXTRACT]
Heavy rotation
From 1977-92, the Album Cover Albums presented a broad spectrum of record sleeve art, unintentionally raising questions about the way graphic design for popular culture is experienced, interpreted and preserved. By Christopher Wilson [EXTRACT]
Form and feeling
Rudolph de Harak gets the recognition he deserves in a new monograph by Richard Poulin [EXTRACT]