Forms of Inquiry

A new exhibition at the Architectural Association asks selected graphic designers to conduct an investigation into an area of architectural practice

Go Logo

In the hierarchy of graphic design books, the humble logo compendium often comes in somewhere down the bottom: they can be heavy-going, uninspiring tomes that, by their very nature, seem disorderly and lacking in any uniformity

Under Exposed

Keld Helmer-Petersen is the best photographer you’ve never heard of. But a new book looks set to claim his place in the history of photography

O2 Lights the Way

A trip to the O2 Arena is very much a brand experience – thanks in part to wayfinding signage developed by HOK Sport Architecture, the firm responsible for designing the arena itself

I Made The bunnies bounce

In Fallon’s latest blockbuster commercial for Sony Bravia’s Colour Like No Other campaign, directed by Frank Budgen, brightly coloured model rabbits hop about the streets of New York. We caught up with animation director Darren Walsh about his role on it

Plus ça Change…

Philip Meggs’ classic text, A History Of Graphic Design, now has a contemporary, updated rival. But, as Anna Gerber discovers, even in the graphic arts, the more things change, the more they stay the same

Vinyl Stickers – The New Wallpaper?

Wall sticker set by Nagi Noda
Domestic is a French company that has been commissioning image makers to create designs and illustrations which are made into vinyl sticker packs under the product name Vynil…

Celebrate Water

Celebrate Water poster by Matt Willey & Giles Revell
Carrie Hodson-Walker, a recent graduate from the University of Lincoln, curated a non-profit social design initiative as part of the final year of her course. She invited several international designers and illustrators from across the world to donate poster designs on the theme, Celebrate Water…

How I’d Sink American Vogue

Picture this: Anna Wintour has resigned. The sheer effort of keeping an immaculate bob and an unfeasibly large pair of sunglasses in place 24 hours a day has finally taken its toll. In a move that has shocked the fashion industry, American Vogue has appointed as her successor graphic-designer-turned-artist Scott King. For his first issue in charge, King decides that Vogue should have an anti-war theme. Oh, and it should also be free…

Wilson’s Last Project

Pennine Lancashire identity (detail) on black background
As the tributes following his untimely death made clear, Anthony H Wilson played an enormous role in the rejuvenation of North West England. Although he will rightly be remembered principally for his part in placing Manchester at the heart of popular culture, the final months of Wilson’s life were devoted, with his partner Yvette Livesey, to helping an area just to the north of the city. The project was also to be the last product of what has been one of the great creative partnerships, that between Wilson and designer Peter Saville. We talked to Saville about the project and heard from the people behind the creation of Pennine Lancashire.

London gets inked

A sculpture, created by Asylum, swims alongside the Thames in Mother’s new campaign for TV show London Ink
Massive tattooed figures have recently invaded London, as part of a new ambient ad campaign by Mother. The sculptures, which have currently taken up residence by Tower Bridge and also at Victoria Station, form part of a campaign for new Discovery Real Time reality show London Ink.

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