Feature
Magic box: craft and the computer
Long undervalued as a poor relation of art and design, craft is central once more. Essay by David Crow
Retro-sexism
The bleak reality of sexism, however 1970s, or ‘cool’, demands a critique
Pictures for rent
Stock photography receives little attention and wins even fewer awards, but it makes up a corporate vernacular that informs almost all levels of graphic design
Time, motion, symbol, line
Choreographers through the centuries have made brave, often beautiful attempts to visualise and record their work. Technology provides new means, but scoring a moving, dancing body in four dimensions remains elusive
Reduction
Is graphic design, with its allusions and clutter, fundamentally antithetical to minimalism?
Las Vegas tangle
A junkyard is home to the stylish chaos and discarded carcasses of a golden age of signage
Reputations: Hans-Rudolf Lutz
‘I am addicted to teaching. I have a compulsion to explain the world to others, and to have it explained to me again and again by the students’
Eros
In 1962 Ralph Ginsburg and Herb Lubalin defied puritantical America with the four issues of their erotic magazine Eros
Social vision
RoSPA’s Second World War safety posters challenge orthodox views of British Modernism
Stephen Byram: art&design
A New Yorker opts for content, tactility and the sound of surprise