This is the kind of book that should be sold by weight, not by volume: more significant than the fact that it has 832 pages is that it tops two-and-a-half kilos. continue
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The Design Encyclopedia
on 15 October 2004
Visual Creativity
on 3 September 2004
Mario Pricken’s previous book, Creative Advertising: Ideas and Techniques from the World’s Best Campaigns, has taken its place on all the best art directors’ bookshelves, or at least somewhere in the heap of design students’ portfolios, D&AD trophies and other unidentified crap that languishes under their desks. continue
All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics
on 30 April 2004
I happen to be a bit of a fan of creative accidents. The only time I was ever in a recording studio, I improvised exactly what the producer wanted on the first take, which was not recorded, and then failed to reproduce it for the next hour and a half continue
Fashion & Graphics
on 19 March 2004
Back in the mid-’80s, the story goes, fashion photographer Nick Knight was shooting his first campaign for Yohji Yamamoto and, mindful of his own occasional collaborations with budding design legend Peter Saville, asked who would be doing the graphics. ‘I don’t know,’ replied the creative director who’d hired him. ‘What is the graphics?’ continue
Foundations of Art and Design
on 19 February 2004
If computer-based artists, illustrators and publishers are all too often found wanting when it comes to the technicalities of prepress and print, they’re just as often accused of ignorance about the history and conventions of art and design. continue
The One-Legged Milk Stool
on 31 October 2003
Ladies and gentlemen, allow us to present, in our occasional series of Very Silly Exhibitions, this forthcoming event in the Design Museum’s Tank, the riverside micro-gallery you can visit between meals. continue
Sprite Graffiti Packs
on 31 October 2003
Now hear dis, da Coca Cola Company of Great Britain and Ireland be hangin wit a new crew… oh, let’s not even go there. continue
Zoomorphic
on 19 September 2003
We like the bonkers stuff here at Twenty/20, and you don’t get much nuttier than an exhibition of contemporary architecture inspired by animals. Who the heck, for example, revamps a 1930s house to replicate the lifecycle of a butterfly? continue
The Visual Thesaurus
on 5 September 2003
What do you get if you cross a thesaurus with one of those fashionable floaty-clustery user interfaces? A pig’s breakfast, you speculate. But no, it’s the Visual Thesaurus. continue
World Without Words
on 25 July 2003
As MacUser’s Features Editor is often heard to remind errant contributors, a picture may be worth a thousand words but it still needs a two-line caption. continue
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