Graphic design
April design news: cancer jewellery, food furniture, Karl Lagerfeld
April design news: cancer jewellery, food waste furniture, Karl Lagerfeld
Alice Fisher
27, Apr, 2022 @9:30 AM
Australian PM’s department drops widely mocked ‘phallic’ women’s network logo
Emblem featuring cursive W with a purple protuberance removed ‘pending consultation with staff’
Paul Karp
14, Mar, 2022 @10:07 PM
Klaus Staeck, the provocative artist who challenged postwar Germany’s love of the car
The German graphic designer took the techniques the auto industry uses to sell happy motoring and turned them on their head
Doug Gordon
14, Feb, 2022 @7:00 AM
‘I can see into the lives of North Koreans’ – the professor who reads washed-up rubbish
From sweet wrappers to noodle packets, Prof Kang Dong-wan collects litter that floats to South Korea from the repressive North. Can military secrets really be uncovered in their surprisingly sophisticated designs?
Matthew Wilcox
11, Feb, 2022 @9:48 AM
Kathleen Butlin obituary
Other lives: Graphic designer busy in the 1950s and 60s with commissions for industry
James Mowat
02, Aug, 2021 @4:04 PM
Wake review: a must-read graphic history of women-led slave revolts
Rebecca Hall and illustrator Hugo Martínez uncover hidden stories, vital truths and deep, unhealed, intergenerational pain
Rosemary Bray McNatt
31, Jul, 2021 @6:00 AM
Ken Garland obituary
Graphic designer known for his work with Galt Toys and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Adrian Shaughnessy
01, Jun, 2021 @5:46 PM
Eric Carle obituary
Illustrator and author of classic children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Julia Eccleshare
27, May, 2021 @12:11 PM
Leslie McCombie obituary
Other lives: Graphic designer who produced displays for the Festival of Britain and was an early green campaigner
Jeremy McCombie
30, Apr, 2021 @5:15 PM
In the Instagram age, you actually can judge a book by its cover
Social media is now a vital platform to promote new titles. And that means jacket designs that hit you ‘hard and quick’
Ellie Violet Bramley
18, Apr, 2021 @9:00 AM
‘They capture history’: the projects saving Spain and Portugal’s shop signs
A collective of projects across Iberia is protecting commercial signs to create a living archive
Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
16, Apr, 2021 @9:38 AM
Martin Lambie-Nairn, Spitting Image co-creator, dies at 75
Graphic designer was also behind some of UK TV’s best-known visuals including Channel 4 ‘blocks’ logo
Nadeem Badshah
28, Dec, 2020 @7:12 PM
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