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I am a poster
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David Crowley, curator of ‘The Poster Remediated’ at the Warsaw International Poster Biennale, examines some of the relationships that exist between posters and the human body
Time machine
Each summer since 1973, artist Tom Phillips has taken photos of the same twenty places in his South London neighbourhood. The resulting artwork – 20 Sites n Years – is both conceptual art and social history
Ambition and illustration
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Alan Male welcomes a return to the ‘polymath principle’, the idea that an illustrator should engage with their subject matter at a deeper, more authorial level
Ardizzone at peace and in conflict
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Edward Ardizzone’s experiences as a war artist gave an extra depth and toughness to his work
Olivier Kugler: bearing witness
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This contemporary illustrator uses his ears and eyes – plus a camera, digital voice recorder, sketchbook, pencil, scanner and laptop – to document stories of exile, displacement and the complex reality of refugees’ lives
Modernist cottage industry
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For more than a decade, Ruth Artmonsky has been publishing modest, readable books about design and illustration from her London flat
Techno cubists
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Champions of the layered look, Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell wed theory and technological wizardry
Your system sucks!
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The flight from Modernism left a yearning for graphics that were rough, real, unaffected and believable. At some point, though, the downtown poster hardened into a convention
Reputations: Nadine Chahine
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‘I wanted to discover if there was any value in simplification, in terms of legibility, and only research could tell me. This is where the science comes in; I needed numbers!’
Expressive geometry
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Kabel, Rudolf Koch’s eccentric, geometric 1920s typeface, has been revived as a 21st century type family by Marc Schütz. By Madeleine Morley, with extracts from Gerald Cinamon’s book about Koch