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Japanese design in Zürich [EXTRACT]

Japanese design in Zürich [EXTRACT]

Sascha Lötscher

Japan and Switzerland both enjoy rich graphic traditions, and both cultures draw their vigour from craftsmanship, clarity and simplicity.

 
Band practice [EXTRACT]

Band practice [EXTRACT]

John L. Walters

Few authors have taken the trouble to research and document the dark art of the rock band logo …

 
Where the grid came from [EXTRACT]

Where the grid came from [EXTRACT]

Richard Hollis

One night in January 1959, I carefully peeled off a poster from outside the Zürich…
 
The universe in squares [EXTRACT]

The universe in squares [EXTRACT]

Jim Sutherland

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

 
Gentleman’s relish [EXTRACT]

Gentleman’s relish [EXTRACT]

Rick Poynor

Gert Dumbar was always a social animal. He possessed an impish sense of humour, a twinkle in his eye, bags of charm, and he knew how to use them …

 
Just ink it

Just ink it

Hans Dieter Reichert

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s fearless handbills and posters are powerful, expressive statements of intuitive, spontaneous print activism …

 

Democracy is in the details

John L. Walters

‘One more session and we’re outta here,’ said John Hockenberry. ‘We can all go back to…
 

New era

Steve Rigley

Era 05. World Design Congress. 22-28 September 2005, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Oslo and Copenhagen. Reviewed by Steve Rigley

 

You can’t bomb a virus

Monika Parrinder, Colin Davies

In the early 1990s at the Design Museum café, mentally flitting from the coffee-machine’s slick Gaggia…
 

Refreshing but inscrutably exotic

Steve Rigley

3030: New Graphic Design in China brings together 30 designers, most of whom were born around the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) …

 
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