Alexander Ecob

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Relentless information

Issue 83, Summer 2012

Review

Riding the persistent wave of popular interest in data visualisation, Taschen’s Information Graphics is a…

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Type Tuesday

6 March 2012
Graphic design, Type Tuesday, Typography, Visual culture

A facelift for Italian daily Corriere della Sera – from Brera and Solferino
In late 2004 Gianluigi Colin, design director at Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera –…

The form of the essay

25 January 2012
Book design, Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

FLOK’s clothbound series design for publishers Notting Hill Editions
The essay is a form of writing that has largely fallen out of the public’s…

Gag pile

14 October 2011
Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

Gordon Young’s Blackpool Comedy Carpet with Why Not Associates

The Comedy Carpet is a celebration of comedy on a vast scale, hewn in concrete and granite across Blackpool’s seafront.

Gill sans Eric

6 June 2011
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Posters, Typography, Visual culture

Brighton show will put MacDonald ‘Max’ Gill back on the map.
One could be forgiven for not knowing that Eric Gill had a brother. MacDonald ‘Max’…