Feature: Illustration
Two-colour haikus
Banks & Miles art directed Which? magazine, the Consumers’ Association’s flagship title and its covers.…
Liberté, égalité, typography
Serge Ricco, creative director of l’Obs, has shown this word-driven, left-wing French weekly the power…
Pulling back the curtain
Published by the Communist Women’s League, Ty i Ja [You and I] was an ambitious 1960s title that brought…
Lovable loser
A daring approach to sports journalism earned the short-lived Jock magazine a place in design history
Reputations: Gail Bichler
‘Our content is hard to come by. You are designing in real time about world events. The freedom we have…
The anti-Rockwell
Blechman pioneered a less-is-more aesthetic. His scratchy shorthand expresses ideas with a punchy…
Reputations: Atlas, Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martín
‘You have to be the orchestra conductor, taking control of all these elements and making them magically…
We Made This: Technical challenge
Sarah Snaith talks to Briar Levit, director of a new film on the history of graphic design
R. O.’s New Yorkers
Blechman celebrated the city’s high days and holidays with wit and concision
Systematic play
Using intuition, research and process, the work of Armin Lindauer and Betina Müller revitalises…