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Milan’s anarchic Modernist
Alessandro Colizzi explores the Futurist past of Bruno Munari, the eclectic, prolific designer-illustrator of Mussolini’s Italy.
Screen prints
Recently discovered posters for the RCA Film Society provide fresh perspective on the intimate relationship between graphics and cinema in the 1950s and 60s.
Reputations: Chris Dixon
‘I sometimes liken art direction to film directing. They start with a script, basically just words on white paper, and they read it and start to imagine and visualise it. You can do it a thousand different ways.’
Old school layout
Every fortnight, art director Tony Rushton and editor Ian Hislop lay out Private Eye in a way that’s hardly changed in 50 years
Buying time
With shorter, more commercially driven degrees under serious consideration, Steve Rigley argues that design students need more space to speculate and make mistakes.
Gender rendition
Todd Trexler’s Das Black Moonlight poster marked drag’s movement into the public consciousness.
Modernism and monograms
Both artisan and art director, Hermann Eidenbenz was a subtle master of Swiss design.