Feature: Graphic design
Natural fantasy
Anna Kealey on the myth-making powers of food packaging design
Burger, fries, no logo
With ‘nothing to show and nothing to say’, Ben Stott’s ‘anti-branding’ helped turn the Byron restaurant chain into a multi-million pound brand.
Reputations: Louise Fili
‘Most restaurants are not used to dealing with designers, so I ask lots of questions. It’s being able to talk about colour, texture or architectural details. All I need is one element to latch on to that can make the logo work.’
Type specific
TDC hails the wider world of empathetic wine labels, typographic IDs and retro stationery
The accessible elite
Linda Kwon reports on a design conference that aims to fight the ‘velvet rope syndrome’
Go with the data flow
Dutch studio Lust mixes digital space with physical reality, playing fast and loose with the conventions of interaction design.
Milan’s anarchic Modernist
Alessandro Colizzi explores the Futurist past of Bruno Munari, the eclectic, prolific designer-illustrator of Mussolini’s Italy.
Screen prints
Recently discovered posters for the RCA Film Society provide fresh perspective on the intimate relationship between graphics and cinema in the 1950s and 60s.
Modernism and monograms
Both artisan and art director, Hermann Eidenbenz was a subtle master of Swiss design.