Feature: Critical path

 
Two cheers for publishing

Two cheers for publishing

A two-volume book packed with graphic design history is a visual blockbuster, but does little for scholarship. By Rick Poynor
 
Googling the design canon

Googling the design canon

In the late 1980s, US designer and historian Martha Scotford set out on a mission to discover what might constitute a canon of graphic design …
 

If the image of the text … has more value than its content …

With visual culture triumphant and content marginalised, how can typography be defined?