Feature: Design history
Eye’s early years
Founding editor Rick Poynor recalls the aims and ideas behind the launch of an independent design…
Letterform Archive: Objects of Inspiration
Letterform Archive is feeding the post-digital generation’s passion for physical artefacts [EXTRACT]
Elaine Ramos: The book designer
‘We overdose on communication, but “beautiful” design circulates only between the culturally literate.’…
They made Canada
Working against the clock, with virtually no budget, Greg Durrell made a design documentary that shows how…
Pay it forward
Rubén Fontana devised a system for teaching typography that is grounded in Argentina’s culture and…
Two cheers for publishing
A two-volume book packed with graphic design history is a visual blockbuster, but does little for…
Radical platform
From its early grassroots days, Spare Rib provided a groundbreaking public arena for women’s issues…
Lovable loser
A daring approach to sports journalism earned the short-lived Jock magazine a place in design history
This woman’s work
Kate Hepburn’s design career, embracing pioneering magazines such as Spare Rib and Vole as well as…
We Made This: Technical challenge
Sarah Snaith talks to Briar Levit, director of a new film on the history of graphic design