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Revolutionary language
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“A revolutionary graphic language must seek to expose the meaning by presenting a chain of ideas, images, structures in as much of their complexity as is economically feasible.” Robin Fior in The Designer, journal of the society of industrial artists and designers, London, May 1972.
Techno-orientalism, digital fetishism
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A recent festival of new film-making showed what happens to creativity when designer/directors \'orientalise\' their digital tools
Punk uncovered: an unofficial history of provincial opposition
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British punk gave a sound, a voice and a visual currency to the disenfranchised and remote. Overlooked, uncelebrated and difficult – the output of the anonymous artworkers who packaged the vinyl spewed out by punk’s first waves captured the oppositional (and occasionally political) spirit of the time. By Russell Bestley and Ian Noble.
A design (to sign roads by)
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As an exemplary rational design programme, the road signs of Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert demand careful study. Despite poor application, inconsistent additions and muddle over the past four decades, their robust, flexible system – with its humane typeface and quirky pictograms – still functions throughout the length and breadth of Britain
The celebrated Mr B
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The graphic output of one of Britain’s best loved artists, the originator of the iconic cover for Sgt. Pepper
Towards a complex simplicity
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In the face of global branding, designers are seeking inspiration from the everyday
All you need is love: pictures, words and worship
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Sister Corita Kent’s freewheeling assemblages of text and image provide a new perspective on the 1960s obsession with messages and media.
Not browsing but reading
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Is there an alternative to scrolling text and gap-toothed HTML?
Reputations: John Maeda
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‘People can rely on one trick if they use a computer. Once you make that trick, you just press a button and it happens again. It can ruin your brain.’
8vo: type and structure
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For fifteen years this UK practice has given typography a central place in graphic design