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Reputations: Michael Bierut
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‘The biggest challenge that faces a designer isn’t the quest for novelty, but coming to grips with the fact that much of what we do has little content’
Reputations: Josef Müller-Brockmann
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‘I would advise young people to look at everything they encounter in a critical light … Then I would urge them at all times to be self-critical.’
Building a graphic language
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From the 1930s to the 1960s, The Architectural Review's eclectic methods made it a landmark in magazine design
The chair man dances
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This little red book is a capitalist keepsake – a testament to the corporate culture of a chair company with exotic picture research.
Drag me. Click me.
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A sprinkling of icons may make for a pretty interface, but many of them are opaque and meaningless
Designing demons
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The rhetoric of hate provides ‘a new kind of meaning’
Other spaces
Paul Elliman tells his students that “everything you know is wrong”, embracing error to find ideas where others see junk
Culture in a cold climate
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In the ‘post-intellectual’ era, four Canadians use their talents in the service of creative discourse and the act of reading
Between histories
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The graphic design legacy of the young republic of Croatia can be traced through its turbulent past and rich traditions. By Orsat Francović
Multiple meanings
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Uwe Loesch’s posters have the linguistic subtlety and precision of conceptual art. They demand attention, then release their significance bit by bit.