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Dumb
Are designers who proclaim the end of print turning their backs on design's critical purpose and cultural role?
Techno craft
David James is a typographer with an exacting eye, who blurs the boundaries between graphic design and art direction
Invasion of the copy snatchers
A project by J. Abbott Miller's Design Writing Research expands ancient and modern type into the third dimension
Read this aloud
Pierre di Sciullo’s experimental alphabets interrogate the conventions that govern the way we read, write and talk
The man who invented graphic design
When W.A. Dwiggins called himself a graphic designer, he coined the phrase that would define professional practice
Grrrl style
America’s women snowboarders are using the graphic language of boards to help claim their space in the sport
Mags out for the lads
British men’s magazines rely for sales on female flesh. Harmless fun, “post-feminist” irony, or a desperate ploy to turn back the social clock?
Oblique strategies
Long out of print, Brian Eno’s ‘worthwhile dilemma’ cards have been reissued by Californian software guru Peter Norton
Knowing
Mark Farrow’s minimalist graphics have won him a place in the profession’s mainstream usually denied to music designers
Xpress expands into multimedia
Quark's Immedia is not quite Director's equal but it gives Xpress users a multimedia tool that works in a familiar way