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Dumb

Will Novosedlik

Are designers who proclaim the end of print turning their backs on design's critical purpose and cultural role?
 

Techno craft

Julia Thrift

David James is a typographer with an exacting eye, who blurs the boundaries between graphic design and art direction
 

Invasion of the copy snatchers

Andrea Codrington

A project by J. Abbott Miller's Design Writing Research expands ancient and modern type into the third dimension
 

Read this aloud

Ursula Held

Pierre di Sciullo’s experimental alphabets interrogate the conventions that govern the way we read, write and talk
 

The man who invented graphic design

Steven Heller

When W.A. Dwiggins called himself a graphic designer, he coined the phrase that would define professional practice
 

Grrrl style

Katie Salen

America’s women snowboarders are using the graphic language of boards to help claim their space in the sport
 

Mags out for the lads

Caroline Roux

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

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Long out of print, Brian Eno’s ‘worthwhile dilemma’ cards have been reissued by Californian software guru Peter Norton
 

Knowing

Rick Poynor

Mark Farrow’s minimalist graphics have won him a place in the profession’s mainstream usually denied to music designers
 

Xpress expands into multimedia

Richard Spohrer

Quark's Immedia is not quite Director's equal but it gives Xpress users a multimedia tool that works in a familiar way