Feature: Magazines
Seize the sans serif
Raw, vigorous, experimental and often funny, Ark magazine helped to transform British graphics
Reputations: Terry Jones
‘I’m a creative director. I work with photographers. Years ago I said design is a piece of piss. Design is something that shouldn’t be complicated.’
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.’
Up close and tight
The legendary Herb Lubalin brought humour, sensuality and a contemporary flourish to complex typographic arrangements.
Controlled passion: the art of Fernando Gutiérrez
In post-Franco Spain, a cool Catalan breeze blows through the often humid, overheated world of professional magazine design and art direction
Total design
In its all too brief life, Alexey Brodovitch’s Portfolio magazine achieved perfection
Wheels of fortune
Fortune magazine was a visual encyclopedia of American business life
Maps and dreams
No printing method is too basic for Jake Tilson. Created with photocopiers, his books, magazines and objects are crammed with offbeat invention.