Feature: Design history
Pay it forward
Rubén Fontana devised a system for teaching typography that is grounded in Argentina’s culture and…
They made Canada
Working against the clock, with virtually no budget, Greg Durrell made a design documentary that shows how…
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
A house that type built
Type foundry House Industries – the subject of a hefty new monograph and a retrospective exhibition near…
Expressive geometry
Kabel, Rudolf Koch’s eccentric, geometric 1920s typeface, has been revived as a 21st century type family…
Take my concept
Boris Bućan’s early posters display an audacity that challenges divisions between graphic design and…