Adrian Shaughnessy
Recent articles by Adrian Shaughnessy
Rethinking Lubalin
Issue 83, 2012
As his book on Herb Lubalin – the first in almost 30 years – goes to press, Adrian Shaughnessy…
Failure – the designer’s guardian angel [EXTRACT]
Issue 71, Spring 2009
Schism and reunification
Issue 72, Summer 2009
Where there was once discord, there is now harmony, as design zealously embraces the made image.…
Back on the old battleground
Issue 48, Summer 2003
Sad beauty of Bucher’s cover art
Issue 45, Autumn 2002
Raise the bar
Issue 79, Spring 2011
Uncompromising posters for the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in Paris
One man brand?
Issue 76, Summer 2010
Manfred Eicher’s uncompromising artistic vision has always defined the look and feel of ECM.
Angela Lorenz [text in full]
Issue 49, Autumn 2003
A Berliner’s work finds parallels between laptop music and design
Laptop aesthetics (text in full)
Issue 49, Autumn 2003
A crackly, digital approach informs one of three current design trends
Think of your ears as eyes
Issue 16, Spring 1995
Barbara Wojirsch and Dieter Rehm bring a mysterious beauty to the record label graphics of ECM
Reinterpreting the classics
Issue 21, Summer 1996
For a handful of classical record companies, expressive design is a commercial priority.
Truth lies in the surface
Issue 42, Winter 2001
You can feel it. The unimpeachable authenticity of uncoated board
Not browsing but reading
Issue 36, Summer 2000
Is there an alternative to scrolling text and gap-toothed HTML?
Mo’Wax
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
Ben Drury’s freewheeling ‘house style’ mirrors the label's urban swagger
Reduction
Issue 38, Winter 2000
Is graphic design, with its allusions and clutter, fundamentally antithetical to minimalism?
Smoke and glue
Issue 39, Spring 2001
The visual candour of Wallace Berman’s hand-bound Semina magazine links 1950s hipster art with…
Mystery and clarity
Issue 52, Summer 2004
These children’s book illustrations captured moments of social history
A glimpse of graphic hell (extract)
Issue 53, Autumn 2004
Whatever ideological stance they take, designers must at least believe in design
Recent blog posts by Adrian Shaughnessy
Historical digital
20 October 2011