Feature
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
Branding
The Wieden & Kennedy agency provides big-name clients with the personal styles of cutting-edge graphic designers
The diaphanous machine
Designers can bring clarity and consistency to Web interfaces and find new ways to organise navigation
Pouchee’s lost alphabets
Ornament is no longer a crime and there is a
growing enthusiasm for decorative display.
Few contempory display alphabets equal those of Louis John Pouchée for vivacity and invention
Meta’s tectonic man
In Erik Spiekermann’s hands, typographic design is a tool for rendering the world more accessible