Action stations.
Jonathan Miller explores the analysis and representation of movement

The current Estorick exhibition ‘On the Move: Visualising Action’ is not an art or photography exhibition, though it contains plenty of both. Nor is it strictly about science or technology More »

Small and perfectly formed.
Ken Garland takes another close look at the world around us

In recent years, graphic designer Ken Garland has devoted increasing amounts of his time to photography. More »

Christmas crackers.
Enjoy a festive treat from the colourful world of Mr Edwards

It’s Christmas, and Mr Edwards is on cracking form with a seasonal More »

Power shots.
Mitch Epstein’s exploration of the USA’s energy-producing heartland

Mitch Epstein is one of the foremost photographers working in America today, writes Wayne Ford. Through his images More »

Pan Am’s Helvetica dreamtime.
How I unearthed a forgotten chapter in corporate design history

I came across six Pan Am posters while visiting the ‘Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art’ exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, writes Frederico Duarte More »

The art of mass market mags.
How do you design a cover that sells? Andy Cowles reveals all on 16 Dec 09

With their multiple pictures, blocks of angled type and fluorescent More »

Electric Narcissus and digital Echo.
‘Decode: digital design sensations’ at London’s V&A museum

The key word in the title of ‘Decode: digital design sensations’ (which opens today at the Victoria and Albert museum in London) is More »

Sleeves we like.
Robert Flynn’s covers for Impulse! expressed ideas more than sounds

The Impulse! label LP covers by Robert Flynn / Viceroy are among the best of a great era. Yet this 1966 sleeve for John Coltrane’s turbulent,  More »

Taking the ‘P’.
Share a Friday pint with this patriotic policeman

Mr Edwards returns with another Crap Book classic. More »

Designing for Dieter Rams.
Bibliothèque on the graphic roots of product design

There are important designers and then there are the really important designers, writes Mason Wells of Bibliothèque. Dieter Rams is definitely one of the latter.

During his long tenure as head of design at Braun, More »