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Reputations: Fabien Baron
‘Putting too much interpretation into design is not good … For me, the reasons behind it are more primitive than philosophical or sociological’
Language unleashed
Massin’s pioneering book designs of the 1960s used graphic devices to make the spoken word visible and enhance the text’s meaning
The chair man dances
This little red book is a capitalist keepsake – a testament to the corporate culture of a chair company with exotic picture research.
Reputations: Dan Friedman
‘Radical modernism is my reaffirmation of the idealistic roots of our modernity, adjusted to include more of our diverse cultures’
A daily record
This year the American Institute of Graphic Arts presented the NYT a special award for its innovative ‘A National Challenged’ supplement which reported on the aftermath of 11 September. This report includes key spreads and covers from the supplement. Tom Bodkin, NYT design director, recalls the decisions and experiences behind the publication of these pages
Sue Coe: eyewitness
The New York-based artist makes ferocious images as instruments of social change. Her timely new book is a searing indictment of animal butchery.
Don’t buy this
Graphic agitation hits the high street in an installation for Friends of the Earth that questions the material obsessions of global consumerism. By Rick Poynor
Overtures and psychotic symphonies
Title sequences of the 1950s and ’60s grabbed moviegoers with psychological insights, orchestral violence and some lessons learnt from the early pioneers of animation, for whom motion graphics, sound and story were inseparable
The far side
Clients can seem stubborn, ignorant, wilful and slow, yet some build a relationship of strong mutual respect with design practices.
Icons for the people
A new V&A display and a book trace the method of visualising data pioneered by Otto Neurath in the 1920s