Feature: Design history
A house that type built
Type foundry House Industries – the subject of a hefty new monograph and a retrospective exhibition near…
Expressive geometry
Kabel, Rudolf Koch’s eccentric, geometric 1920s typeface, has been revived as a 21st century type family…
Take my concept
Boris Bućan’s early posters display an audacity that challenges divisions between graphic design and…
Stamped in the memory
The Gentle Author’s book about East London print and envelope specialists the Baddeley Brothers…
James Mosley: A life in objects
Through his ideas, collecting and dogged research, the former St Bride librarian has shown that printing…
The first couple of American billboards
Otis and Dorothy Shepard, the ‘Scott and Zelda’ of mid-century advertising graphics, were neglected when…
Powered flight
For fifteen years, Pegasus, an international biannual corporate magazine designed by Derek Birdsall, led…
Bitworld
Digital archeologist Jim Boulton explores the creative history of computer technology
In the right place
In this extract from his book, Gerald Cinamon explains how he brought integrated book design to Penguin…
Leftovers with a bad taste
In the past century the use of ‘trade characters’ built brand loyalty while reinforcing stereotypes