Feature: Illustration
Reputations: Gail Bichler
‘Our content is hard to come by. You are designing in real time about world events. The freedom we have…
The anti-Rockwell
Blechman pioneered a less-is-more aesthetic. His scratchy shorthand expresses ideas with a punchy…
Reputations: Atlas, Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martín
‘You have to be the orchestra conductor, taking control of all these elements and making them magically…
We Made This: Technical challenge
Sarah Snaith talks to Briar Levit, director of a new film on the history of graphic design
R. O.’s New Yorkers
Blechman celebrated the city’s high days and holidays with wit and concision
Systematic play
Using intuition, research and process, the work of Armin Lindauer and Betina Müller revitalises…
Crayon game
The unexpected craze for adult colouring books has created a bonanza for publishers. Can they keep it…
Modernist cottage industry
For more than a decade, Ruth Artmonsky has been publishing modest, readable books about design and…
The long look
Creating playful, thoughtful images for The Guardian’s ‘long read’ section relies upon a close…
Ambition and illustration
Alan Male welcomes a return to the ‘polymath principle’, the idea that an illustrator should engage with…