Opinion
Letter from Caroline Archer, Director, St Bride Printing Foundation
Whatever ideological stance they take, designers must at least believe in design
An ‘encyclopaedia’ of Russian prison tattoos exposes a complex graphic subculture
Features
In 1936, Herbert Bayer was faced with a difficult brief: promoting the Third Reich
Art and culture are open to interpretation. Why must we give them fixed identities?
Branding is not design and it is not marketing. Branding is a discipline we have to define
The notion of the brand and its plausible functions have been derailed and abstracted
A fresh look at Wally Olins’s highly regarded branding manual, now in paperback
Branding a nation may be just a matter of saying everything there is to say about nothing
‘They were Frank’s identities, and he controlled them . . . I was really just satisfying these various…
Romek Marber’s 1960s paperback identity is a landmark of independent British design
Scott Stowell’s Open brings innovation, style and plain speaking to broadcast design
The image of Holland has switched from tulips to hemp in one generation