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Design has the power to effect change. Now it must develop a social conscience

In the past century the use of ‘trade characters’ built brand loyalty while reinforcing…

Are the pictures of Dallas photographer Geof Kern postmodern retro or authentic art?

Tina Roth Eisenberg never had a business plan. But all the things she dreams up – the Swissmiss…

‘I got this idea that the way they were selling these albums was ridiculous. The covers were just…

Scott Stowell’s Open brings innovation, style and plain speaking to broadcast design

Why has France’s influence upon European graphic design been underestimated and neglected?

Animator Jeff Scher uses dense, unorthodox techniques to make his highly original, image-rich films…

Facsimiles give scholars and students the chance to enjoy, understand and literally get to grips…

When art director Art Paul made the journey from Bauhaus to Hefner’s Playboy mansion, men’s mags…

US picture magazines of the late 1960s and 70s are still a vital source of inspiration

… there was a Big Bad President. How satirists use children’s tales to puncture the huffing and…

Jürgen Holstein’s volume of rare Weimar-era jackets and covers is an extraordinary labour of love…

Everything Christoph Niemann makes, from visual blogs to picture books, reveals his witty, literate…

World religions put their faith in the standard quarter-inch grooved changeable letter board

Richard Saul Wurman, FAIA, is an architect, cartographer and the author and designer of more than…

Cooper Black is one of the emblematic typefaces of the twentieth century. Who was the man behind the…

The lettering on the covers of Germany’s most popular film magazine expressed plot and tone with…

An Art Deco warehouse in Miami Beach throws unexpected light on the dark arts of design

The Nazi party’s obsession with cultural dominance extended far into calligraphy, lettering and…

The atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud has become the logo of annihilation

The word ‘advertising’ makes designers cringe. But it is central to the profession’s history…

Painting is dead, long live the dustjacket. Alvin Lustig brought modern art into American bookshops…

‘You can’t research a big idea. The only ideas that truly research well are mediocre ideas. In…

With Number Seventeen, their New York design practice, Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler have…

It has taken decades for expressive typography to win acceptance in the world of the children's book…

Every era creates heroic imagery that conforms to its specific needs

Amy Guip reconciles commercial image-making with a need to explore more personal themes

In the 1950s and 1960s, American art directors led a creative revolution. Thier secret weapon was…

When W.A. Dwiggins called himself a graphic designer, he coined the phrase that would define…

Born in Czechoslovakia, Ladislav Sutnar was a pioneer of information design. Working in America in…

They are obsolete now, but the picture magazines of the pre-TV era were breeding pens for today's…

Peter Giradi's practice creates digital landscapes composed of detritus scavenged from the…

For one issue, under Jan Tschichold’s stewardship, a monthly trade journal, Typographische…

With a revival of journalistic visual essays in US magazines, illustrators are once again becoming…

‘The biggest challenge that faces a designer isn’t the quest for novelty, but coming to grips with…

It is ten years since Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman impetuously founded Raw Books and…

In 1962 Ralph Ginsburg and Herb Lubalin defied puritantical America with the four issues of their…

The New York-based artist makes ferocious images as instruments of social change. Her timely new…

This committed New Yorker tackles personal, self-financed projects that hammer home graphic…

Alan Aldridge’s art direction of Beatles lyrics gave a graphic twist to the Swinging Sixties

‘We wanted to avoid the unspoken design taboo: Good design = subtle, tasteful, elegant…

‘The South’, Seymour Chwast’s special civil rights issue of Push Pin Graphic, was a virtuoso…

Daniel Walsh, former US Marine, founder of Liberation Graphics and self-styled ‘communications…

Through its publications and gallery, the Composing Room promoted the new American design

The back-stories, informed by trends, cults, philosophies and nationhood

or: how graphic designer Pablo Ferro learned to split the screen, cut the crap and tell the story…

The rhetoric of hate provides ‘a new kind of meaning’

‘I think it is one of the paradoxical conditions of design authorship, that you have to be both…

Chicago’s comic book hero has a finely tuned gift for hand-lettering

‘I was out walking the dear dog and I saw 500 things that made me want to make art.’

Steven Heller on Gail Anderson's SVA class in typographic animation

After years of wrangling, the posters that the Nazis stole from Hans Sachs are to be returned to his…

Over-abundant embellishment is spiralling out of control. Time to get out the shears, cries Steven…

Not all designers are liberals. But you’d never know it from design conferences. Or the pages of…

In a world of brand specialists and information architects, is it enough to call ourselves…

While we don’t need more slick professionals, primitives are no boon either