Profiles

No Country for Old Men's recent success at the Oscars heralds the return of the cowboy - a figure who, after decades of phenomenal popularity, had all but disappeared from the big, and small, screen

A new German translation of the 18th-century book that invented aesthetics highlights its relevance to contemporary practice

Looking back at the work of the late Ettore Sottsass

When a low-budget Romanian film about abortion won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival it heralded a new era of filmmaking in a country still struggling with post-communism

1953-2007

1939-2007

Do the record prices being fetched at auction for design mean it should now be considered art?

A new documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Helvetica typeface

David Lynch’s first digital video feature, INLAND EMPIRE, is his most experimental work in years

Bamako, a new film from Mali, stages a fictitious trial of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

From YouTube to a Hussein Chalayan dress, looking back over the most innovative design and technology of 2006

Designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have curated an exhibition that celebrates the idea of the ‘Super Normal’

Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s compelling films have often delved into the realms of popular folklore and the supernatural. His latest project, Syndromes and a Century, is no exception

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

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

Ivrea is the former campus town of the renowned Italian typewriter company Olivetti and a fine example of successful Modernist design

Since the early 1960s, Jonas Mekas has been documenting his life on film, creating a personal testament to friendship, exile and the flow of history

Born in Munich in 1965, Konstantin Grcic trained as a cabinet-maker and then studied design at Royal College of Art in London. After graduating he worked in Jasper Morrison’s studio before opening his own practice, Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID), in Munich in 1991. He has designed products for companies including Authentics, ClassiCon, Flos, Iittala, Magis, Muji and Plank. KGID, a monograph on his work, is published by Phaidon

The best graphic design must be more than decorative – it has to make sense of its subject

Miranda July is a video and performance artist turned commercially successful filmmaker. What’s the difference?