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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.’
Central Lettering Record
Central Saint Martins' collection of historical letterforms and type samples is an invaluable resource
Blam: the essence is speed
William Owen looks at design in the age of digital reproduction
A sense of rupture
ReVerb is a four woman, one-man design team in the heart of polyglot Los Angeles. In their conceptually based work, artificial distinctions between ‘high’ and ‘low’ melt into an alternately grating and blended concoction that reflects the discord and simultaneity of life in the city
Underground matriarchy
Ellen Lupton, Laurie Haycock Makela
Women who have shaped the profession by their own work and by enabling those around them
Theatre of dreams
Andrzej Klimowski is obsessed with eyes, faces, hands, angels and devils. He is one of Britain’s most haunting image-makers
White space black hat
Derek Birdsall harbours a secret. It has given him 30 years at the top. If it works, he says, use it again