Feature: Visual Culture
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
Penguin crime
Romek Marber’s 1960s paperback identity is a landmark of independent British design
Reputations: Terry Jones
‘I'm a creative director. I work with photographers. Years ago I said design is a piece of piss. Design…
Big subject, little pictures
Joe Sacco uses the comics medium to describe the lives of Palestinians
Punk uncovered: an unofficial history of provincial opposition
British punk gave a sound, a voice and a visual currency to the disenfranchised and remote. Overlooked…
