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The modernist body
Images of the human form receive little analysis. An exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert museum explores approaches to the body in early German design.
A terrible beauty
The atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud has become the logo of annihilation
A New York state of mind
The design of The New Yorker has nearly always taken the approach that ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’, with a familiar layout and masthead. Does a face-lift jeopardise its relationship with its readers? Time to call in the Type Police
Postboxes
Photographer Jan Erik Posth’s collection of European postboxes provides the opportunity for a neat graphic enquiry
Kex
Eduardo Paolozzi’s collage ‘novel’ Kex, made in 1966, has renewed resonance in the 1990s
Bards of the balance sheet
How corporate designers turn routine annual reports into epic narratives of business triumph
Lucille Tenazas: Layers of language
The work of San Francisco designer Lucille Tenazas lies somewhere between the rigour of design and the freedom of art. Tenazas believes it is possible to solve the client’s communication problems, while also addressing her own