Abbott Miller
Recent articles by Abbott Miller
California is a state of mind
Issue 90, Summer 2015
Rendered, on the cover of Metropolis’s American edition, in iridescent foil and set against a…
From object to observer
Issue 61, Autumn 2006
Exhibitions blend the complexities of architectural space with the narrative concerns of book design
Through thick and thin: fashion and type
Issue 65, Autumn 2007
Fashion’s obsessions are mirrored in its typography, from Vogue’s femme serifs to butch Chanel and the hybrid YSL logo
Let’s not forget about culture
Issue 13, Summer 1994
The TEDS conference, ‘information architect’ Richard Saul Wurman’s fifth technology/entertainment/design extravaganza, was a mixture of…
Alchemy of layout
Issue 51, Spring 2004
Walter Pamminger champions the potential of design to create content
Pictures for rent
Issue 14, Autumn 1994
Stock photography receives little attention and wins even fewer awards, but it makes up a corporate vernacular that informs almost all levels of graphic design
Reputations: Fabien Baron
Issue 18, Autumn 1995
‘Putting too much interpretation into design is not good … For me, the reasons behind it are more primitive than philosophical or sociological’
First Things First Manifesto 2000
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
Thirty-three visual communicators renew the 1964 call for a change of priorities
Word art
Issue 11, Winter 1993
In post-war art the visual and the literary have blurred. Typography is the point at which they meet
The idea is the machine
Issue 10, Autumn 1993
Style is addictive, While structure comes from within, generating form from the inside out
What did you do in the design studio today, daddy?
Issue 22, Autumn 1996
Graphic designers are convinced of the profession’s importance. Now they have to convince everyone else
Quentin Fiore: Massaging the message
Issue 8, Autumn 1992
The man who gave form to Marshall McLuhan’s ‘global village’ designed books that were both for and ahead of their time