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Reputations: Milton Glaser
‘I am nervous about ideologies, whether it’s the ideology of business or the ideology of Bolshevism. I get nervous in the presence of absolute certainty’
Play-centre of the avant-garde
At the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, design reflects a developing sense of identity and purpose
The space between the letters
Matthew Carter's new identity for the Walker Art Centre is a typeface family with 'snap-on' serifs
Permanent innovation
With his ‘livre objets’ for the French book clubs, Pierre Faucheux invented a new genre
Signs of trouble
British designer David Crow uses his personal projects to question the authority of the graphic image. By Julia Thrift
Type play for kids
It has taken decades for expressive typography to win acceptance in the world of the children's book
Branding as mythology
Branding experts draw on centuries of myth-making to imbue products with emotional symbolism
Enigma variations
Studio Dumbar uses its posters for the Zeebelt Theatre in the Hague for anarchic type experiments
Archive: International Picture Language
Otto Neurath’s 1936 book was the fullest exposition of his vision of an international visual language
Reputations: Josef Müller-Brockmann
‘I would advise young people to look at everything they encounter in a critical light … Then I would urge them at all times to be self-critical.’