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The power of physical books
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Sonya Dyakova has a way with words, ideas, space and type. By Mark Sinclair
Ecological literacy
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The result of a decade spent ‘formulating a stronger ecological theory for design’, Joanna Boehnert’s…
Guerrilla graphics
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Design has the power to effect change. Now it must develop a social conscience
Type design with a straight face
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The title of this sumptuous book is a surprise. Despite Matthew Carter’s much-reported encounters with travelling…
Putting design’s house in order
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Once every six years, the three international federations of industrial, graphic and interior designers stage an…
Anita Klinz: The first Italian art director
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Over two crucial decades at Mondadori, designer Anita
Klinz transformed the look of Italian book publishing. Luca Pitoni tells her
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Lettering in the landscape
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Mark Noad, Chair of the Lettering Arts Trust, considers the training and design behind hand-carved lettering and looks forward to two exhibitions of the carver’s art in the UK
Two questions are regularly levelled at letter-carvers: ‘what typeface is it?’ and ‘don’t you have…
Refreshing but inscrutably exotic
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3030: New Graphic Design in China brings together 30 designers, most of whom were born around the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) …
Baked in
Its ethical problems may be nothing new, but as ‘AI’ invades graphic designers’ workspaces, its excessive energy consumption, resource extraction and exploitation of creative labour need tackling head on. By J. P. Hartnett
Ultra process
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Tool, agent or end of days? John L. Walters asks designers and image-makers how and why they use visual AI and what this might mean for creativity