Feature: Information design
Atomic everyday
Michael Collins’ mesmerising, technically perfect photographs of nuclear plants show interiors that are both mundane and frightening. By John L. Walters
Reputations: Margaret Calvert
‘If I look back at my beginning and everything, it’s learning on the job. You teach yourself and you pick up things and you look and you research – and it happens.’ Interview by John L. Walters and Simon Esterson. Portrait by Philip Sayer
Conversation with John Burn-Murdoch
As Covid-19 spread across the globe, it became clear that data visualisation would become ‘the language of the pandemic’.
Jacqueline Casey. Science and design
Jacqueline Casey was instrumental in developing what became known as the MIT Style. By Elizabeth Resnick
Moscow by type
For the underground railway of Russia’s capital, wayfinding experts City ID commissioned A2-Type to make the Metro’s first typeface and pictogram system
Writing the city
Signwriter Pete Hardwicke has left his mark on a significant area of London
Natural fantasy
Anna Kealey on the myth-making powers of food packaging design
Training the big guns
Peter Sullivan’s newspaper war visuals 1970s & 80s
Do it yourself
Fraser Muggeridge reads a trusty manual that shows how to fix almost anything
The art of illumination
Will Burtin, the man who invented infodesign 1940s