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Day-Glo mind blow
Psychedelia hit late 1960s London in an explosion of silk-screen colour
Cultural chameleon
The German publication Shift! takes familiar signs from the world of image consumption and reconfigures them for its own purposes. The changing format, from disk to book to board game, is an essential part of its identity
Design in the age of digital reproduction
‘Multimedia’ may well be one of the most overused words of the 1990s. What does it mean for designers, what has been achieved so far and where are we heading?
Between histories
The graphic design legacy of the young republic of Croatia can be traced through its turbulent past and rich traditions. By Orsat Francović
Look inward: graphic design in Australia
Is Australia’s global cultural impact reflected in its graphic design?
Love of lexicons
The dictionary framework allows readers to find random nuggets of information, forging connections that reflect the arbitrary nature of life.
Looking for clues
Notebook in hand, Paul Davis works like a journalist, trying to figure out what makes us tick
Britain’s signature
Margaret Calvert signed the UK – from road to rail to air. Now Henrik Kubel has digitised her Rail Alphabet
The idea is the machine
Style is addictive, While structure comes from within, generating form from the inside out
Daily Mirror
In the hands of Dieter Rot, the British newspaper was transformed into a striking artist’s book