Review
The man who made aeroplanes out of scrap metal
Scout, the latest venue in the heaving gallery-land that is London’s Hoxton Square, hopes to live…
A mixed bag of digital typefaces (extract)
There is a finite number of ideas (both formal and conceptual) in contemporary type design, and…
Jack of all trades (and master of most) (extract)
Will the real Rian Hughes please stand up? There’s Hughes the cartoonist (Dare, The Science Service)…
Design from above meets design from below (full text)
Since April 2001, a group of four giant vitrines at the Design Museum have been devoted…
Crazy cat, demented details (text in full)
Waldo the cat is a demonic figment of Ted Mishkin’s imagination. Yet so diabolical is this…
Blank criticism
Given how mischief and misdirection have been central threads during the fifteen-year history of The Designers…
Off the wall [EXTRACT]
While both stencilled graffiti and its freely rendered counterpart collide content into locality to make meaning…
Jewels in the dung heap
Chermayeff has been producing collages for almost 50 years, trawling and scavenging the streets of his…
Beneath the surface
Ellen Lupton, the editor and principal author of this book, will be familiar to many readers…