Opinion
Visual Editions’ box of literary maps challenges authors to think differently about the structures that…
Features
‘Most restaurants are not used to dealing with designers, so I ask lots of questions. It’s being able to…
With ‘nothing to show and nothing to say’, Ben Stott’s ‘anti-branding’ helped turn the Byron restaurant…
Asked to nominate a favourite item of information design, illustrator Paul Davis had no hesitation in…
‘Roundhead’ Sean Perkins explains North’s designs for restaurateur Alan Yau and the St Pancras Hotel
From the synthesised splash of sugary fizz to 3D-printed hamburgers, the future of food goes way beyond…
David Hillman’s photographic designs for Dragonfly changed the look of tea packaging
The olive oil industry is helping to revive the Greek economy – and designers are at the heart of this…
Richard Krzyzak talks to Tessa Traeger, Simon Wheeler and David Loftus, three photographers whose work…
Tessa Traeger interviewed by Richard Krzyzak. Part 1 of ‘Plate camera’
Simon Wheeler interviewed by Richard Krzyzak. Part 2 of ‘Plate camera’
David Loftus interviewed by Richard Krzyzak.
Part 3 of ‘Plate camera’
Andreu Balius collects Spanish meat papers, which are typically covered in graphic images of animals who…
Alternative food zines scramble the conventions of magazine design to make a more authentic flavour
Stranger & Stranger and Fernando Gutiérrez tell Paul Keers about the ways in which bottles and labels…
The new craft beers come in bottles, ideal for trendy bars and hipsters who want to display what they’re…
One of the world’s oldest chocolate bars has kept the same colour through thick and thin
Owen Jones’s trademark design for biscuit tins has stayed the same for generations
The comic strip simplicity of Len Deighton’s Action Cook Book taught bachelors how to cook
In the past century the use of ‘trade characters’ built brand loyalty while reinforcing stereotypes
The dead-wrapped Tunnock’s Tea Cake is both hipster treat and Scottish design classic
Ardizzone’s menus evoked a mid-century world of food-loving Londoners
