Feature
Alchemy of layout
Walter Pamminger champions the potential of design to create content
Information visualisation
Modern-day map-making may be a way out of Web design’s stasis
The alchemy of interpretation
Neither downloading, promoting nor selling, Seemusic is about the age-old quest to experience sound as vision
Kit of parts
A newspaper is a giant kit of parts that gets assembled in different ways each day. Contemporary newspaper design is about trying to define how the kit should look and work. Drawing on examples from throughout the world, Simon Esterson examines the process
Posters
Ikko Tanaka’s posters were elegant, but spoke to the person in the street
Graphic leaflets rained down from the sky
During the Korean War, graphic leaflets rained down from the sky, full of threats and promises.
West coast latitudes
Los Angeles is the perfect environment for the literate, intelligent work of a loose cadre of graphic designers working in education, commerce and culture
Reputations: Adrian Frutiger
‘I was fortunate. Early in life, I understood that my world was a two-dimensional one. At sixteen I knew that my work would be in black and white.’
Reputations: Peter Saville
‘This is a post-design era. It’s deliberately going against all those things that were canonised in the 1980s and are now exhausted.’ Interview by Rick Poynor
Back into battle
Nicholas Blechman’s ’zine is a barbed response to contemporary US politics