Feature: New media

 
Conversation with John Burn-Murdoch

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’.
 
Anette Lenz: Poetic rhetoric in the public realm

Anette Lenz: Poetic rhetoric in the public realm

Over nearly three decades, Anette Lenz has made work that transcends trends and technology. Profile by Jan Middendorp
 
Space Type Generator

Space Type Generator

Kiel Mutschelknaus’s constantly evolving Space Type Generator has the power to hypnotise
 
Ethics in the age of data capitalism

Ethics in the age of data capitalism

Has user-centred design dragged us to the brink of catastrophe? And if so, do we need a First Things First for the digital world?
 
Reading books and scrolls and screens

Reading books and scrolls and screens

Technology continues to change relationships between writers, publications and reading, acting as a catalyst for new publishing models
 
Colour is the new black

Colour is the new black

For the past decade or so, Mark van Wageningen has been investigating the possibilities of adding colour to the conventional black-and-white universe of digital type design, resulting in work that is both thrilling and evocative
 
The programmed designer

The programmed designer

Industry-standard tools – Apple computers, Adobe software – have created astonishing new possibilities for graphic designers. But is this liberation, or a new kind of imprisonment?
 
Olivier Kugler: bearing witness

Olivier Kugler: bearing witness

This contemporary illustrator uses his ears and eyes – plus a camera, digital voice recorder, sketchbook, pencil, scanner and laptop – to document stories of exile, displacement and the complex reality of refugees’ lives
 
Dance on the spot

Dance on the spot

Abbott Miller’s iPad contemporary dance apps for the 2wice Arts Foundation – a dynamic coming together of code, choreography, music and design – bring playful, digital interaction to loops and layers of physical performance
 
To have and to hold

To have and to hold

The challenges of digital publishing have galvanised a new spirit in book design and production. Is it just the decadent flourish of a disappearing format?
 
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