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Digital type decade
The sound and fury of ‘radical’ typeface design associated with the early days of PostScript have quietened into a purposeful, prolific hum. There’s a new order of craft and and invention, driven by corporate culture, nostalgia and the demands of the screen.
Reputations: J. Abbott Miller
'We could be more aware of the civility of design, of how it can be constructive in a poetic sense, not just like a sneeze of capitalist excess’
Marks on paper
Letterpress’s eclipse by digital typesetting has been a liberation for typographer Alan Kitching
Compare and contrast
With a CD-ROM based on its legendary lettering archive, Central Saint Martins has created a new tool and resource
Go-faster graphics
Radical young designers changed the face of British design in the 1980s. A decade later, their inventions have been softened into easily identifiable styles endlessly recycled by the commercial mainstream
Hi-res hedonist
Me Company make designs of fabulous compexity. The shape of screenlife to come or techno-kitsch?
Attacked by music, type and light
Technology on tour. Noel Douglas talks to UVA’s Matt Clark about their sets for Massive Attack
Dark tools of desire
Surrealism’s relationship with graphic design is still strangely unfulfilled. By Rick Poynor