Feature: Information design
Strip science
Rob Waller decodes the multimodal layout lessons of Rupert Bear
Charts change minds
Description of the slave ship Brookes 1788
Crashing through the type
Time magazine infographics by Nigel Holmes 1970s
Branches and roots
John L. Walters on the break-ups and tearful reunions of Rock Family Trees
Life’s little detours
Eric Heiman salutes the ‘Edward Hopper of design and comic art’
Taught from a new angle
Oliver Byrne’s element of Euclid 1847
Tool-shop for a counterculture
Ken Garland hails the ultimate buying guide for the anti-capitalist revolution
Machine head
Fritz Kahn commissioned illustrators to realise his surreal pedagogical vision – mechanical metaphors for the human body.
Lady with the diagram
Florence Nightingale on Crimean War mortality, 1858
Head Trip
Simon Esterson applauds the vivid drama of a pharmaceutical brochure