Feature: Graphic design
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]
Jump cuts
Motion design is everywhere. The gleaming screens of our phones, TVs and poster sites demand more and more ways to make words and pictures dance in space and time. By John L. Walters
Mark Holt: Games, set and dispatch
The title page credit for Munich ’72: The Visual Output of Otl Aicher’s Dept XI reads ‘Researched, written, edited, designed and published by Mark Holt.’ Interview by John L. Walters
A niche of a niche
CentreCentre is the imprint founded by British designer Patrick Fry
My friend David King
The book David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is a comprehensive account of the work of a unique figure in graphic design history. Here Richard Hollis, witness to King’s development as designer, artist, collector and pioneering author-designer of dazzling books of social and political history, recalls his friend and fellow designer. By Richard Hollis
Jacqueline Casey. Science and design
Jacqueline Casey was instrumental in developing what became known as the MIT Style. By Elizabeth Resnick
Crowd control
Designers are making illustrated books through crowdfunding instead of traditional publishing methods. By John L. Walters
Ten projects by Jim Sutherland
A graphic designer downsizes to spend more time thinking, studying and designing without commercial studio pressures. What could possibly go right? By Simon Esterson. Portrait by Philip Sayer
Anette Lenz: Poetic rhetoric in the public realm
Over nearly three decades, Anette Lenz has made work that transcends trends and technology. Profile by Jan Middendorp