Feature
Commercial Art
Judith Williamson, Max Bruinsma, Teal Triggs, David Bernstein
Oliviero Toscani's monumental and confrontational art direction and photography has provoked many different critiques and gut reactions as he tries to blur the line between fine art and advertising, an approach he has continuted with Colors and Fabrica. Like a Virgin? (David Bernstein); Benetton’s gospel (Max Bruinsma); Fabrica: Heaven, Hell or Purgatory? (Teal Triggs); Business as usual (Judith Williamson)
Sweet smell of excess
Perfume packaging must evoke the indescribable. It has its own designers, conventions and codes.
Typography
Robert Harling’s eclectic magazine, published in the 1930s, is the first in a new occasional series.
Art and art direction (text in full)
imply two separate worlds, yet artists who use text employ the techniques of graphic design. And so for the pharmaceutical type pastiches in \'The Last Supper\', a series of screenprints, Damien Hirst employed designer Jon Barnbrook.
Self-expression, self-promotion
Whether these examples arrive under the aegis of a distinguished imprint, drop unsolicited through the mailbox or accompany a portfolio, it is possible – among the unfettered outpouring of naked ambition, personal enthusiasms and obsessive interests – to uncover some fine examples of self expression.
City of words
LED and LCD display texts intensify our image of the modern city as an electrical field. New technologies allow these letterforms to appear on almost any surface, from billboards to the windows and walls of buildings to the sides of buses and even clothing. What kind of writing is this? Is this typography?
In any colour so long as it’s white
Why does Mexican advertising look nothing like the Mexicans?
Smartest letterer on the planet
Chicago’s comic book hero has a finely tuned gift for hand-lettering