Feature: Graphic design
Tightly packed
Owen Jones’s trademark design for biscuit tins has stayed the same for generations
Fry like a spy
The comic strip simplicity of Len Deighton’s Action Cook Book taught bachelors how to cook
Purple reign
One of the world’s oldest chocolate bars has kept the same colour through thick and thin
Labelled with love
The new craft beers come in bottles, ideal for trendy bars and hipsters who want to display what they’re drinking. By Paul Keers
Process and poetry
Stranger & Stranger and Fernando Gutiérrez tell Paul Keers about the ways in which bottles and labels communicate the intangible (and occasionally imaginary) character of wine and spirits
Raw like sushi
Alternative food zines scramble the conventions of magazine design to make a more authentic flavour
Comic cuts
Andreu Balius collects Spanish meat papers, which are typically covered in graphic images of animals who often relish their tragic end under the butcher’s knife
All about oil
The olive oil industry is helping to revive the Greek economy – and designers are at the heart of this success.
Cup challenge
David Hillman’s photographic designs for Dragonfly changed the look of tea packaging
Luxury of less is more
‘Roundhead’ Sean Perkins explains North’s designs for restaurateur Alan Yau and the St Pancras Hotel