Feature
Beyond typography
Fuse’s team of talented young type designers is on an inspired quest to ‘Make it new!’ But behind the talk about breaking open the bonds of language and reinventing the alphabet, what is the project really about?
Form follows attitude
Lars Muller’s dissatisfaction with design’s service role led him to set up his own publishing house
Self-propelled, self-made
Big books give KesselsKramer and Fuel an instant air of authority.
Machin Definitive UK postage stamps
Cock-ups appreciated by Paul Neale, Graphic Thought Facility
Herbert Spencer: 1924-2002
Ken Garland recalls the late British designer and editor who died earlier this year
Waiting for the total toolset
Macromedia Director 5 is much improved, but still not quite the ultimate all-in-one toolset
Bodies, text and motion
Peter Greenaway’s new film, The Pillow Book, is his most sophisticated essay in graphic cinema
Reputations: Michael Bierut
‘The biggest challenge that faces a designer isn’t the quest for novelty, but coming to grips with the fact that much of what we do has little content’
Reputations: Jon Barnbrook, Virus
One of type design’s young stars talks about his new company and the pressures of early success.
