Feature: Graphic design
First Things First Manifesto 2000
Thirty-three visual communicators renew the 1964 call for a change of priorities
Reputations: Malcolm Garrett
‘I figure it’s my job to be this kind of blinkered believer. You know: I am the new futurist, I will live in the technological world.’
Word art
In post-war art the visual and the literary have blurred. Typography is the point at which they meet
This signifier is loaded
Zurich designer Cornel Windlin is a fluent graphic stylist and a playful manipulator of communication codes
23 Envelope: ambience and inner space
Operating undercover, using the enigmatic title of 23 Envelope, Nigel Grierson and his partner Vaughan Oliver created designs of exceptional power. Their work inspired the next generation of image-makers. By Rick Poynor
Reputations: Alexander Liberman
‘I think the term “art director” is the greatest misnomer. There’s no art in magazines unless you are reproducing works of art.’
Day-Glo mind blow
Psychedelia hit late 1960s London in an explosion of silk-screen colour
Up close and tight
The legendary Herb Lubalin brought humour, sensuality and a contemporary flourish to complex typographic arrangements.
Do they know it’s communication?
A decade after signing First Things First 2000, Bob Wilkinson tested his design principles by volunteering for a two-year placement in Nigeria.
Quiet spirit of joy
By championing pattern-making, art and ephemera, the Curwen Press brought a new ‘Comfy Modernism’ to commercial printing