Feature: Visual culture
Pulling back the curtain
Published by the Communist Women’s League, Ty i Ja [You and I] was an ambitious 1960s title that brought the outside world to its Polish readers
Lovable loser
A daring approach to sports journalism earned the short-lived Jock magazine a place in design history
Two-colour haikus
Banks & Miles art directed Which? magazine, the Consumers’ Association’s flagship title and its covers. John Miles talks to Paul Harpin
Double vision
Fast-paced, emotional, competitive, surprising – Germany’s ZEITmagazin is a print title for the digital age
Liberté, égalité, typography
Serge Ricco, creative director of l’Obs, has shown this word-driven, left-wing French weekly the power of expressive type and images
Looking at magazines looking at themselves
Five enormous, lavish books celebrate the achievements of five legendary titles: Harper’s Bazaar, Rolling Stone, New York, The Face and Octavo
Small is beautiful
Estonian design education enjoys a culture of innovation and experimentation thanks to the country’s tiny population, says Kristjan Mändmaa, Dean of Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts
Reputations: Atlas, Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martín
‘You have to be the orchestra conductor, taking control of all these elements and making them magically come together’
Systematic play
Using intuition, research and process, the work of Armin Lindauer and Betina Müller revitalises connections between art, design and science
Masks and mayhem
João Farkas uncovers a little known side of Brazilian tradition in his vivid photographs of carnival costumes in the city of Maragojipe