Issue 51

Opinion

Big fun with words
Big fun with words
Rick Poynor
Do Zembla’s readers need this much graphic cheer-leading? Critique by Rick Poynor
The end of typography: slow death by default
Agenda, Phil Baines
Designing for the partially sighted: misguided guidlines

Features

Alchemy of layout
Abbott Miller
Walter Pamminger champions the potential of design to create content
Gigantic pixels (text in full)
Catherine Slessor
A new arts centre faces Graz with a bulging low-res screen
Exposure
David Thompson
Two epic photographic books give human endeavour a new perspective
The order of pages
Can graphic design reinvigorate the photographic monograph?
Back into battle
Back into battle
Dan Nadel
Nicholas Blechman’s ’zine is a barbed response to contemporary US politics
Land and liberation
Dana Bartelt
Palestinian artists tell their people’s stories through symbols and allegory
A new kind of story
Steven Heller
An interview with pictorial magazine pioneer Stefan Lorant (1901-97). By Steven Heller
Graphic tourism
Jason Grant, Daoud Sarhandi
Shooting, cropping and editing turns the vernacular into glossy publishing.

Reviews

Advertising And The Artist