Feature
Mad about awards
Winning can sometimes make a difference – to clients, to friends, and the occasional good cause
Machine head
Fritz Kahn commissioned illustrators to realise his surreal pedagogical vision – mechanical metaphors for the human body.
Step and repeat
Richard Rhys’s new foundry, which sells original patterns by designers and artists, gives a new twist to a timeless concept
Voice control
The title sequence for this Truffaut movie heralds brilliantly a world where the written word is forbidden.
Smear
Smear, featuring a caricature of UK politician Jeremy Thorpe, is the Penguin Special that never was
Shock tactics
America’s funky ‘altweeklies’ are a hotbed of zero-budget, attention-grabbing cover art direction.
In the thick of it
Morag Myerscough puts an eclectic graphic sensibility into public spaces, with colour, pattern and big type
Culture compass
Andrew Losowsky on the ‘nonsensical authority’ of the Approval Matrix
Googling the design canon
In the late 1980s, US designer and historian Martha Scotford set out on a mission to discover what might constitute a canon of graphic design …