Feature
This is not a book
An artis't book can be a sculture, an object and a private exhibition - a medium liberated from its well-defined formats
Scrap merchants
Peter Giradi's practice creates digital landscapes composed of detritus scavenged from the wastleland of traditional media
The Mechanical Bride
Marshall McLuhan's 1951 analysis of advertising's unholy trinity of sex, death and technology
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Travelling graphic designers supply a personal vision, in words and pictures, of professional and vernacular work in the East
Money. Magic. Light.
Factors of scale ensured a glittering take-off for two corporate identities. But what do they actually communicate?
Global City
Screens from a documentary about graphic design in four cities: New York, San Franscisco, London and Amsterdam
The Museum of the Ordinary
The exhibits are the entire contents of a swathe of blocks on downtown New York. A proposal and manifesto. By Michael Rock and Susan Sellers
Serious doodling
Working in the crash-prone pre-history of multimedia, Post Tool has a brand of graphic design that is closer to televsion
Fotonovels
Before the home video revolution, Fotonovels provided a graphic way to re-live the experience of Hollywood movies
Mandarin to Mao
The modern Maoist versions of traditional Chinese characters introduced ambiguity and confusion by deleting information