Feature
Out of the darkroom and into the light
Sue Steward considers the speed, the globalisation and the democratisation of digital photography
Paper planet
Joost Grootens, whose background is in multimedia and architectural design, is reinventing the atlas for the 21st century
Graphic tourism
Shooting, cropping and editing turns the vernacular into glossy publishing.
The designer as architect
When Donald Wall made this book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a vision of 1990s typography in its most radical form. By Rick Poynor
Gothic horror
The Nazi party’s obsession with cultural dominance extended far into calligraphy, lettering and type
Comic books come back with a cautious bang
After a 1990s bubble that went splatt, the comics industry has begun to renew itself through new formats, from glossy hardbacks to cheap pulp
The Press Release
The press release is one of the principal methods through which design companies, art directors and ad agencies speak to the media and the world outside. What does the press release say to the journalist during its brief journey from mailbox to wastebasket?
The endless library at the end of print
Does the current avalanche of glossy books constitute a genuine design history – or mere graphic ephemera? By Teal Triggs
Sound, code, image
Postwar composers, such as Cage, Cardew and Crumb, have left an exuberant legacy of seductive graphic scores that still puzzle and fascinate the artists and musicians of today.