Feature: Critical path
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
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
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?