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Do-it-yourself

Julia Thrift

Activists were not interested in design sophistication, but their publishing tools imposed their own urgent aesthetics
 

Eyes on the world

Steven Heller

They are obsolete now, but the picture magazines of the pre-TV era were breeding pens for today's visual narratives
 

Keep it simple

Max Bruinsma

Mieke Gerritzen brings her visual language of graphic emblems and clear-cut lines, colours and type to the Web
 

Lost in the city

John Warwicker

A CD-ROM may combine poetic imagery with virtuoso programming, but is it the right medium to convey meaning?
 

Honour thy error

Anna Gerber

Can happy accidents save us from crude perfectionism?
 

Website design for grown-ups

Brett Wickens

The five windows of GoLive CyberStudio 2.0 help Web designers and HTML programmers to get along better
 

Dell Books

An early form of info-graphics, Dell Books' lurid covers and 'Mapbacks' of the 1940s brought pulp crime fiction to life
 

New World order

Paul Rennie

Now that information management is a priority, the logical graphic style of Erik Nitsche has aquired a new relevance
 

Remote control

Bell/Eye

In a culture of interface, images become tactile: we feel with our eyes. The first in Eye's new series of visual essays
 

Best before

Max Bruinsma

British supermarkets display packets and tins whose graphic design codes have a longer shelf life than the food inside