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826 Valencia

David Thompson

Chris Ware’s new mural tells the story of the human race
 

Small, mobile, intelligent units

Liz Farrelly

Eye talks to young French designers who reject the atelier system and prefer to go it alone
 

The game of art

Koosje Sierman

Graphic design was just one of the tools Karel Teige used to advance his vision of a new Czech society
 

When 1+1=3

Eric Kindel

Colour overprinting: constructed images by printers and designers
 

We hardly knew you

Stefan Sagmeister, Peter Hall

Street-corner merchandising tries to remember the twin towers
 
Penguin crime

Penguin crime

Rick Poynor

Romek Marber’s 1960s paperback identity is a landmark of independent British design
 

Reinterpreting the classics

Adrian Shaughnessy

For a handful of classical record companies, expressive design is a commercial priority.
 
Reputations: Jean Widmer

Reputations: Jean Widmer

Ursula Held

‘Signage reflects both the complexity of space and the way a place is organised. And it is very satisfying’
 
The Word on the street

The Word on the street

Andrew Robertson

Asked to make a graphic intervention for a Lisbon chapel turned gallery, design studio R2 turned to everyday irreverences
 
Sampling the Modern

Sampling the Modern

Bill Mackay's lucid work for GF Smith established a design tradition now continued by SEA