Opinion: Graphic Design
Why we should talk to our neighbours
Design education faces some important decisions. To what extent should it be about the study of the…
Fits, starts and fads
Eras cannot be neatly sliced up according to decades or even generations. Graphic design keeps changing…
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Scarcity and silence: Amc2 Journal
An image-led journal marries the serendipitous collisions of image-sharing sites with the physicality of…
A persuasive chancer
On the basis of its first issue The Happy Hypocrite is small, quietly experimental and just a bit…
Inspiration
Designer Simon Esterson finds inspiration in Ken Briggs’s National Theatre programmes from the 1960s
Postcards from the edge
The ‘unpatriotic’ Sphere caught US designers at the worst moment
Inflated intangibles
We’re in bras, lamps and breakfast cereal
Today’s corporation is very different from its predecessors. But the identities devised by designers are…
Words fail us
Serious discussions of the relationships between message, audience and graphic design are still…
