Opinion: Graphic design

 

Editorial Eye 14

Graphic design, Editorial

Graphic design is so deeply inscribed within the fabric of everyday life that it is…
 

The (layered) vision thing

Design education, Graphic design

If it has dotted lines, an arrow or two and it’s impossible to read, then it must be ‘postmodern’. Are we using the theory the way it was intended?
 

What has writing got to do with design?

Design history, Graphic design, Agenda

We canonise the giants of design history as champions of total authorship, while overlooking the obvious message of their work
 

Whatever became of the content?

Book design, Graphic design, New media

Much new design is over-complex and confusing. An alternative current, sharing many of the same assumptions, aims for clarity
 

We’re in bras, lamps and breakfast cereal

Graphic design, Agenda

Today’s corporation is very different from its predecessors. But the identities devised by designers are failing to mirror the changes
 

Words fail us

Graphic design, Agenda

Serious discussions of the relationships between message, audience and graphic design are still handicapped by a limited lexicon. Yet our need for an enriched language is greater than ever.
 
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