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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 …
Do it again
Jenny Grigg’s covers, literary but not literal, were perfect for Peter Carey. Which helped when she had to design them a second time
Shock tactics: Bazooka
Though inspired by UK punk, the Bazooka collective’s violent, sexy graphics spoke in a French accent
Pichação [EXTRACT]
The architecture of São Paulo, Brazil, is covered by a unique form of calligraphic graffiti
On the road
Think Don’t Think - a series of poetic graphical interventions on the zebra crossings of Paris