Opinion
Cult of the squiggly
Over-abundant embellishment is spiralling out of control. Time to get out the shears, cries Steven Heller.
Editorial Eye 72
Last summer we tackled the canon of graphic design history in a special issue; this…
Bad timing
In a new Obama-led world order, Omega’s lust for luxury seems as misplaced as a licence to kill. Critique by Rick Poynor
The canon, aimed at your back
GenPrag’s T-shirts celebrate the most emblematic of twentieth-century graphic design heroes. So let’s have one for Will Burtin. Critique by Rick Poynor
Risk and ritual
Anne Harild’s work offers a challenge to the unthreatening norms of British illustration
Is type design teaching losing its soul?
Formulaic, modular approaches threaten the chemistry of the master-apprentice model.
Lyrical approach to programmes
From Harry Woodrow, creative director, Multistorey, London
In passing: Obit
This American blog-mag reminds us that obituaries are about lives lived. Critique by Rick Poynor