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Designers are only human
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‘Beyond Change’, a wide-ranging conference in Basel, Switzerland, gave voice to subjects often ignored within design discourse.
By Katie Evans and Gabriela Matuszyk.
Thursday 8 March 2018 was International Women’s Day, marking the end of a significant twelve…
Another look at British identity
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The Bus is part a then-and-now portrait portfolio, part autobiography, part essay on documentary photography…
Sharp thinking takes the prize
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The latest Charles Nypels Prize for typography was awarded last November to Erik van Blokland…
Zen and the art of design
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Oullim, the keyword of the Icograda Millennium Congress, is a Korean word meaning “great harmony”…
Impressions of another time
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In an attempt to re-assess the foundations of today’s electronic type design, Fred Smeijers went…
Fuse's envelope comes unstuck
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The suffix ’94 seems to suggest that the organisers of the Fuse conference expect to…
Face to face with the Afrikan written tradition
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Contemporary graphic and typographic design histories are mostly America-centric or Euro-centric. Despite a few books…
Recalling the Vignelli experience
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‘In the early 1950s,’ begins Massimo Vignelli in the first chapter of this visual monograph…
Larger than life itself: 2x4 at SFMOMA
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It takes a certain kind of designer to turn a 600 square foot museum gallery…
Political imagery re-examined
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One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…