Feature
Adventures in motion pictures. Aerial ballet of upholstery
Matthew Donaldson’s high-speed ‘still life’ photoshoot with GTF for Kvadrat at Pinewood
Illuminated thought
The practice is said to ‘signal a break with the past’ but GTF has an unforced ‘style’ that is impossible to copy
Vision of a future that never was
This radical, well designed plan sought to turn grimy war-torn London into a Modernist Utopia
Reputations: Cal Schenkel
‘They were Frank’s identities, and he controlled them … I was really just satisfying these various concepts.’
Reputations: Commercial Type
John L. Walters, Simon Esterson
‘There has been typography on the Web for its entire existence, because there are words, and where there are words there is typography … Some people believe that there is going to be a radical change in the process of reading because of webfonts. Actually, no.’
Reputations: Marian Bantjes
‘I’ve come close to working with a couple of agencies for very big brands, but either the money isn’t there or the agency just has a stupid idea that I’m not interested in working on. Like they want type with a bunch of bullshit curlicues coming off it. Yawn. Go away.’
Buying into the Norm cosmos
The Swiss practice’s typefaces are quirky, oddly popular, and deceptively simple – also a critical response to neutrality
Modern method
As the Design Museum launches a retrospective of Wim Crouwel’s work, Kerry William Purcell interviews the Total Design (TD) co-founder.
Little, British…
With contributors such as Ballard and Paolozzi, Ambit is a literary magazine that has always punched above its weight
Lessons from an abandoned fish factory
This project showed MA students at Central Saint Martins how design can work in the ‘real world’