![Issue 50](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6774920090_9342c6c648_o.jpg)
Opinion
Rick Poynor
Abstract covers give an identity to this ambitious book series. Critique by Rick Poynor
Features
Alice Twemlow
A broadsheet tackles Helvetica’s use and abuse with the eye of an outsider
Steven Heller
The back-stories, informed by trends, cults, philosophies and nationhood
Adrian Shaughnessy
Does a small book from nearly 30 years ago encapsulate a ‘golden age’?