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Willem Sandberg: Warm printing
The Dutch pioneer’s catalogues for the Stedelijk show a tactile use of sensual materials and experimental typography
The loneliest insight?
A broadsheet tackles Helvetica’s use and abuse with the eye of an outsider
Conference madness
It’s a messy hybrid of live chat show, summer camp, theatre and rock’n’roll
P. Scott Makela is wired
Does Minneapolis-based Makela’s electro-futurism embody the end of the 1980s or a new avant-garde?
Design is advertising #1: The whispering intruder
Advertising soaks into everything. It has become the texture of contemporary life. Graphic design has played a central part in this process. But does it have a viable role of its own?
Reputations: George Lois
‘You can’t research a big idea. The only ideas that truly research well are mediocre ideas. In research, great ideas are always suspect.’
Back after these messages: the No. 17 show
With Number Seventeen, their New York design practice, Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler have acquired a reputation for dancing letterforms and emotionally resonant, playful graphics that speak directly to TV viewers who haven’t yet turned into their parents