Feature
Awards madness
Everybody likes to win. But if design competitions destroy creativity and co-operation, what’s the point? By Jason Grant. Infographics by Paul Davis
Working lunch
Mumbai’s dabbawallas deliver 175,000 meals daily to hungry workers using a unique system. By Steve Rigley and Kurnal Rawat
Truth and distortion [extract]
Can caricature ever regain its power to savage and mock the blunderers in high office?
Security logos
A startling array of incongruous motifs and icons are used by private security companies in South Africa
Telling and selling
Cooper Black is one of the emblematic typefaces of the twentieth century. Who was the man behind the face?
Relics of the Modern
Doing up typefaces is not like doing up buildings – more like re-creating the parts from which buildings can be made
Teaching in the spaces between code and design
Jürg Lehni on the lessons of his Applied Scriptographer Research, carried out with Jonathan Puckey at ECAL
Yin and yang
Matthew Carter, co-founder of the first major digital foundry, explains how he came to design his first wood type