Festive Graphics: The Art and Design of Self Promotion

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The nightmare brief for design consultancies around the world is ? what shall we do for Christmas this year? Festive is a collection of the coolest yule solutions. Every year, designers are faced with the need to reinvent ways to charm their clients and thank them for their business while convincing them that they are the best creative resource available. From specially commissioned bottles of vodka to pressed aluminium, from live Christmas trees to completely il… More >>

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The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923

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Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In The Visible Word, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works. She argues that Futurist, Dadaist, and Cubist artists emphasized materiality as the heart of their experimental approach to both visual and poetic forms of representation; by mid-century, howe… More >>

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Basic Typography: A Design Manual

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For designers, non-designers, and desktop publishers. Fine typography is timeless; typesetting technology may change, but there is only so much a good computer program can do. Using type creatively has more to do with aesthetics and common sense than it does with how the type is set, who sets it, or how much it costs. For guidance we can no longer look to the professional typographer for help; we are now the typographers.

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