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Sticks in the mind
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Does anyone care about posters, or are they just an ego-trip for the designers who still make them?
Awards madness
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Everybody likes to win. But if design competitions destroy creativity and co-operation, what’s the point? By Jason Grant. Infographics by Paul Davis
Magic box: craft and the computer
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Long undervalued as a poor relation of art and design, craft is central once more. Essay by David Crow
Storytelling giant
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Everything Christoph Niemann makes, from visual blogs to picture books, reveals his witty, literate personality
It’s about time
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From a technical viewpoint, digital photographic images can be every bit as good as film. The difference is in the way we think about them
The view from here
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Julio Bittencourt records the last days of Prestes Maia 911 in São Paulo, Brazil.
One week in pictures
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Now we are deluged with more images than ever, we have lost faith in the power of the photo to express anything other than our personal reality. We don’t take the production of meaning seriously and we use pictures with less fluency and purpose than earlier generations of photographers, designers and editors. We don’t know what we’re trying to say and we don’t know who we are saying it for. We don’t value expertise and commitment and we don’t believe in the photographer’s mission – nor do we think it is likely to have any effect. Rick Poynor looks at one week’s magazine journalism, and finds that this ocean of pictures tells uncomfortable truths about who we are now
Reputations: Karsten Schmidt
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‘If we don’t take responsibility as makers we sacrifice everything sooner or later. We have the power! The people who create things, who make things work, we have the power. No politician has that.’
Make each letter speak out loud
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Illustrative typography is rewiring the way we read art, design and communication