Opinion
Gallimard’s Découvertes series secures readers’ loyalty by showing respect for their curiosity and…
The mood and structure of this issue is somewhat different from the last...
Rick Poynor responds to some perplexing findings at ‘New Views 2’
Features
The practice is said to ‘signal a break with the past’ but GTF has an unforced ‘style’ that is…
Do the covers to the D&AD’s annuals – full of pencils, food, and covered in tactile stuff – tell us…
Does anyone care about posters, or are they just an ego-trip for the designers who still make them?
Winning can sometimes make a difference – to clients, to friends, and the occasional good cause
Everybody likes to win. But if design competitions destroy creativity and co-operation, what’s the…
The act of erasure, or striking out, can add new, unintended meanings to the images and information that…
… there was a Big Bad President. How satirists use children’s tales to puncture the huffing and…
‘I could never subscribe to a particular way of doing things – I was always more pick ’n’ mix.…
Self-styled ‘graphic entertainer’ Alan Aldridge shot to fame in the mid-1960s with his work for The…
Patrick Shanahan’s photographs, subjective, seductive and even threatening, invite us to follow him…
Moscow Photobiennale curator Olga Sviblova is re-acquainting Russians with their visual history
A great commercial stock image is like a
three-minute pop song: the best have a simple repetitive…