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Return of the picture
Illustration may be back in fashion, but for the profession to develop, practitioners must explore a more pictorial tradition of image-making
Mail art
In an ambitious programme, Royal Mail has commissioned four dozen illustrations that strive to encapsulate 1000 years of British history
Raised on ideas
The answers to the perceived threat of illustration's obsolescence lie in an understanding of the recent past, in education and in re-integration
The architect as illustrator
The uncompromising, gravity-defying constructiond of Zaha Hadid's practice owe their vision and form to reputation built on paper
Unclassifiable label
This swiss company has pioneered inventive solutions to the practical and aesthetic challenges of "branding" a radical programme of recordings
Pop music art
Whether technology threatens the death of the album sleeve or signals a new era, there is no lack of spectacle as music design goes supernova
Optimize and dupe
A culture of forgetfulness and suspicion provides the ideal conditions under which our daily routines can be read for signs of weakness
Self 1: Self-expanding
When a practice goes live with its own website, the lines between sales pitch, culture, publishing and ads get blurred. But ask a search engine for designers and you end up with branding or blandness. Maybe self-indulgence is the best policy
‘Femicide’ posters
300 murders near the Ciudad Juárez sweatshops provoke a graphic ‘shout’