Feature: Information design
Crashing through the type
Time magazine infographics by Nigel Holmes 1970s
Life’s little detours
Eric Heiman salutes the ‘Edward Hopper of design and comic art’
Branches and roots
John L. Walters on the break-ups and tearful reunions of Rock Family Trees
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.
LA art school
From Punk to production design: the widescreen career of Alex McDowell
Head Trip
Simon Esterson applauds the vivid drama of a pharmaceutical brochure
Lady with the diagram
Florence Nightingale on Crimean War mortality, 1858
A circle that moved the earth
Copernicus’s diagram of the planets 1543