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The history of interactivity
Interactivity is one of the central concepts of multimedia. Bob Cotton, co-author of The Cyberspace Lexicon, traces key stages in the development of our relationship with the screen
Big book, little buildings
In its first edition, this seminal book was a groundbreaking collision between architecture and graphic design, emphasising 'image' over 'form'
Reputations: Maira Kalman
‘I was out walking the dear dog and I saw 500 things that made me want to make art.’
Same name, different face
Can classic, remastered fonts retain the spirit of the ‘authentic’ original?
Smoke and glue
The visual candour of Wallace Berman’s hand-bound Semina magazine links 1950s hipster art with contemporary graphics
The meanings of type
The back-stories, informed by trends, cults, philosophies and nationhood
Space, time and content
Photomontage allowed Lester Beall to unite art, photography, typography and painting with revolutionary European ideas about layout and form
Mr Roughcut
or: how graphic designer Pablo Ferro learned to split the screen, cut the crap and tell the story (in the time it took to run the titles)
Emotion graphics
Is character design a fount of rich, contemporary visual codes . . . or just a cop-out for over-stressed kidults?
Reputations: Gérard Paris-Clavel
‘I always transform the commission: the role of all graphic designers is to question the brief before answering it’