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The universe in squares [EXTRACT]

Issue 107, Winter 2025

Review

Raymond Chandler wrote: ‘Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.’

Reputations: Fuel

Issue 93, Winter 2016

Feature

‘We love collecting vernacular … it’s functional, not following a preconceived idea of what is correct. This can give it an unexpected quality … in “real” design all those elements are lost. Everything is too considered.’ By Rick Poynor

Entranced by motion, seduced by stillness

Issue 33, Autumn 1999

Feature

New media is undergoing the kind of definition print went through centuries ago. A meditation on the status of moving and static typography

Self-propelled, self-made

Issue 38, Winter 2000

Feature

Big books give KesselsKramer and Fuel an instant air of authority.

Both ends burning

Issue 11, Winter 1993

Feature

Fuel is a magazine, a design team, and a four letter word. Their style is tough, but ambiguous, too

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Books received #61

18 August 2025

Designed for Success, Floppy Disk Fever, Schriften, Lettering, Écritures and Propagandopolis

Four design publications that cover two kinds of discs, a legendary lettering manual and historical propaganda worldwide …

The calm collector

24 February 2016
Book design, Brand madness, Design history, Graphic design

A new collection of Steve Hare’s writing demonstrates an erudite passion for the design and content of Penguin Books
The late Steve Hare (1950-2015) was one of those writers that every editor appreciates, writes…