Feature
The look of Lolita
The author ‘emphatically opposed’ showing a girl on the cover. Most publishers ignored him. By Christopher Wilson
The digital wave
The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines. By Robin Kinross
This is not a cigar
Graphic design has always resisted analysis, but new critical approaches show there is more to understanding the medium than first meets the eye
Concrete poems just are
Concrete poetry never won full acceptance, despite the efforts of exponents all over the world. In the digital era its innovations are ripe for reassessment
The designer as author
Graphic authorship is taken for granted by many design theorists and it is gaining ground within practice, too. But the idea has received little sustained examination. What does it mean and what is really possible?
This signifier is loaded
Zurich designer Cornel Windlin is a fluent graphic stylist and a playful manipulator of communication codes
OZ 16: The Magic Theatre issue
Martin Sharp’s “Magic Theatre” issue of OZ magazine is one of the most extraordinary artefacts of the psychedelic era
23 Envelope: ambience and inner space
Operating undercover, using the enigmatic title of 23 Envelope, Nigel Grierson and his partner Vaughan Oliver created designs of exceptional power. Their work inspired the next generation of image-makers. By Rick Poynor
Reputations: Makoto Saito
Jan Kubasiewicz, Elizabeth Resnick
‘I don’t trust words. You can say anything with words. I prefer a visual means of communication allows the message to be more direct’
Surface wreckage
Three books showing accidental collages of torn posters an other random marks revive interest in a style of image-making drawn from the city streets