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Denise Gonzales Crisp: The decorational

Alice Twemlow

For Denise Gonzales Crisp, typography has the deepest tradition of the decorative within graphic design
 

Marian Bantjes: Ornamentality

Alice Twemlow

For Marian Bantjes the most powerful ornament comes out of obsession and long hours of intense labour
 

Advertising and the globalisation of aspiration

Lynne Ciochetto

Global visual culture is dominated by the values of the industrialised West
 

Bookshelf photo shop

Karl Baden

Iconic book cover images create a surreal, alternative history of twentieth century photography
 

Remembrance of things past

Jessica Jenkins

The renovation of Paris’ oldest métro line reveals traces of a century of billboard advertising
 

Harare’s unsung type heroes [EXTRACT]

Saki Mafundikwa

Not even eviction and exposure to the elements can stop the Highfield Art Club from printing
 

Ugly-beautiful [extract]

The work of one of France’s most original graphic voices bristles with contradictions
 

Wayfinding marks from the French Pyrenees

Jamie Hobson

Painted blobs and stripes mark the way for walkers through the Pyrenees
 

Forensic types

Alice Twemlow

Excavating the history of lettering gives this New York foundry a contemporary edge
 
Undergrowth

Undergrowth

John Ridpath

Untangling the internet with IA’s metro ‘snapshot’