Feature: Visual Culture
Labelled with love
The new craft beers come in bottles, ideal for trendy bars and hipsters who want to display what they’re…
Process and poetry
Stranger & Stranger and Fernando Gutiérrez tell Paul Keers about the ways in which bottles and labels…
Comic cuts
Andreu Balius collects Spanish meat papers, which are typically covered in graphic images of animals who…
Design that disappears: the blackboard at St John
Asked to nominate a favourite item of information design, illustrator Paul Davis had no hesitation in…
Picture: Killa
Each of Graham MacIndoe’s drug ‘baggies’ brands a different high
Vapour trails
Steampunk’s florid industrial nostalgia might yet be the defining aesthetic of our time
Painted thrills and spills
Fred Fowle was the UK’s foremost fairground artist. His go-faster graphics and futuristic lettering live…
Miss Fixit
Tina Roth Eisenberg never had a business plan. But all the things she dreams up – the Swissmiss blog…
Free for all
In designing the Ubuntu type family, Dalton Maag had to produce faces for print and screen in thirteen…
A terrible beauty
The atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud has become the logo of annihilation