Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

SPY Stephen Doyle I am not a maniac about knowing who cut what face or if it’s true to the original drawing,” said Stephen Doyle ...

read what they want to no matter how big or small the type. And while I don’t believe in obscuring a message, through scale chan ...

Culture Tabloids Tabloids developed their malodorous reputation because of the gutter journalism practiced by their earliest pro ...

technology, and administered by naïfs, who, armed with press-type, benday and patterned Letraset screens, ruling tapes, Addresso ...

W,Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar, spiced with a dash of People. Its gossipy tone appealed to culture vultures, those maturated group ...

manifest in the design clichés of the period—a Mad Max, Road Warrior, post-Holocaust vision of life wed to a skewed 1930 s moder ...

The Face Neville Brody Neville Brody (b. 1957 ) was weaned on the dada-inspired nihilism of British punk in the 1970 s. But The ...

Although he rejected fine art as elitist, his early work centered on images, and when he used typography it was in a similar, il ...

In 1984 the contents page logo in issue # 50 was a banner-like emblem with mixed-font typographic forms. The letterforms were si ...

futurist composition. But critics and imitators were not far behind, and graphic style in Britain edged toward this neo-modernis ...

Emigre Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko Deconstructivist typography, an idea more or less inspired by linguistic theory, had a c ...

underground newspaper developed into the clarion of digital typography and design. The first Macintosh and its primitive default ...

The cultural feeding frenzy that overtook the Emigre“style” was predictable. What Emigreinitiated was co-opted by scores of main ...

RAW^137 Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman Françoise Mouly (b. 1955 ) and Art Spiegelman (b. 1948 ) were married in 1982. Within ...

getting involved in publishing. That meant setting up a makeshift distribution system so that things she printed could get aroun ...

RAW# 1 was printed on heavy white paper and included a small comic book by Spiegelman called “Two-Fisted Painters” (one of his m ...

In his effort to separate RAWfrom underground comix, Spiegelman featured the masters of the genre and published new stories by R ...

Beach Culture^141 David Carson Good magazine design is not simply a process of imposing tried and true formulas, but one of crea ...

Certainly most other surfing magazines were void of distinguished design. Since surfing is such a specialized activity and writi ...

real upset that their stories were too hard to read, but I found after a few issues that the very same writers who complained ab ...