Category: Design
Issue 110 October 2007
Grand Designs
Do the record prices being fetched at auction for design mean it should now be considered art?
Issue 107 May 2007
Love Letters
A new documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Helvetica typeface
Issue 103 November-December 2006
We Have Standards
Designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have curated an exhibition that celebrates the idea of the ‘Super Normal’
Issue 102 October 2006
Ahead in the Clouds
First built in 1964 the Boeing 737 is still one of the most popular aircrafts in the world. Celebrations for the 5,000th plane to be constructed prompt a reconsideration of what we think of as good design
Issue 101 September 2006
Turn On, Tune In
The invention of the Sony Portapak in 1967 – the first mass-produced portable video camera – encouraged artists to experiment with a dizzying new range of approaches and technologies, prompting the launch of the video journal Radical Software
Issue 99 May 2006
Typing Pools and Homes
Ivrea is the former campus town of the renowned Italian typewriter company Olivetti and a fine example of successful Modernist design
Issue 95 November-December 2005
Good Looking
The best graphic design must be more than decorative – it has to make sense of its subject
Issue 93 September 2005
Paper Trail
Art invitations may have become a branding tool, but a Brussels gallery has reintroduced experimentation with an ‘attempt to transcend the banality of the folded newsletter’
Issue 92 June-August 2005
Screen Print
Illustrated posters are a creative antidote to insipid commercial film marketing
Issue 88 February 2005
Going Dutch
Two recent books ask why design in the Netherlands is so good - but is it?
















