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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?
Photography. Adventures in motion pictures
Slideshows, film, ‘motos’ and long portraits. Time-based picture-taking is transforming the way that photographers deal with their subject matter. Images by Tim Hetherington, Matthew Donaldson and Lauren Greenfield. Words by Kerry William Purcell, Andrew Losowsky and John L. Walters
They made Canada
Working against the clock, with virtually no budget, Greg Durrell made a design documentary that shows how European immigrants created Canada’s visual identity
Pay it forward
Rubén Fontana devised a system for teaching typography that is grounded in Argentina’s culture and politics
New bottle old wine
Drawing on the punches, matrices, specimens and smoke proofs at St Bride Library, Commercial Classics give nineteenth-century typefaces a new lease of life. By John L. Walters
The designer as podcaster
Katie Evans, Gabriela Matuszyk
Podcasts deliver a mini-conference to the smartphone in your pocket
The enigma of Thérèse Moll
This young designer is credited with introducing Swiss typography to MIT
Return to the square
A chance discovery by some builders led to the adaptation and expansion of a 1930s alphabet by one of Switzerland’s foremost designers
Strategy of excess
Like a human algorithm, Hansje van Halem explores a huge number of variables until she finds the right ‘recipe’ for each project