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Eye type reviews
Silvia Sfligiotti, Ferdinand P. Ulrich, Toshiya Izumo, Mark Thomson, Yara Khoury Nammour
Four contemporary type reviews by Silvia Sfligiotti, Ferdinand P. Ulrich & Toshiya Izumo, Yara Khoury Nammour and Mark Thomson
In memoriam: Martin Lee (1941-2025)
Richard Smith pays tribute to a print production maestro who understood graphic designers as well as he understood printers and printing
We made this: Czech design’s soft power
Eight years in the making, an ambitious project charts the story of a small nation’s outsize influence. By Linda Kudrnovská
Dafi Kühne comes to town
A grey London February was enlivened by a visit from the Swiss
letterpress innovator. Report: Richard Ardagh [EXTRACT]
Films on tap
Founded in 2007 by Efe Cakarel, Mubi favours editorial design over marketing conventions to reach twenty million subscribers in 190 countries. By John L. Walters [EXTRACT]
Henrietta Condak: Mistress of Masterworks
Working in-house for CBS, this prolific art director combined illustration, lettering, typography and photography to make a significant body of design for serious music. By Elizabeth Resnick [EXTRACT]
Reputations: Rob Saunders
‘We are in a moment of fascination with everything analogue, especially for designers who spend all day working on screens for screens. For them, it’s refreshing and mind-opening and inspiring in some magical way I can’t fully explain.’ Interview: Eric Heiman [EXTRACT]
Jacket required
A love of reading gives Jon Gray’s book
covers their edge. By Robert Hanks [EXTRACT]
Ultra process
Tool, agent or end of days? John L. Walters asks designers and image-makers how and why they use visual AI and what this might mean for creativity [EXTRACT]
Baked in
Its ethical problems may be nothing new, but as ‘AI’ invades graphic designers’ workspaces, its excessive energy consumption, resource extraction and exploitation of creative labour need tackling head on. By J. P. Hartnett