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The celebrated Mr B
The graphic output of one of Britain’s best loved artists, the originator of the iconic cover for Sgt. Pepper
Fellapages
For thirty years Edward Fella was a commercial artist. In his sketchbooks, he applies his mastery of lettering and illustration styles to brilliant improvisations
Reputations: Gunter Rambow
One of the few remaining poster designers with political edge now teaches his students to reflect more than just Zeitgeist.
A designer and a one-man band
Cranbrook’s song and dance man goes back to college with a bang
The portable art space
Designers who collaborate with artists and curators on catalogues must negotiate a complicated web of interests
Reputations: John Maeda
‘People can rely on one trick if they use a computer. Once you make that trick, you just press a button and it happens again. It can ruin your brain.’
Sticks in the mind
Does anyone care about posters, or are they just an ego-trip for the designers who still make them?
Reputations: Zuzana Licko
‘It’s not a problem of being a woman in a man’s world. It’s being a type designer in a world that gives little recognition to this art form’
Project for a New Novel
J. G. Ballard’s ‘Project for a New Novel’ from the late 1950s makes text obsolete, and the author into the designer
Reputations: Terry Jones
‘I’m a creative director. I work with photographers. Years ago I said design is a piece of piss. Design is something that shouldn’t be complicated.’