Visual Comms
Smart and striking ideas in graphic design and visual communication
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The Acme Novelty Datebook is Chris Ware’s last volume of intriguing sketchbooks and thoughts
Chris Ware presents his ‘artisanal rewritings of personal conflict’, a third and final volume charting the American artist and author’s process
By Jonathan Bell Published
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The life and work of designer Margaret Calvert celebrated in a new monograph from Unit Editions
‘Woman at Work: Margaret Calvert’ is an upcoming monograph on the designer’s celebrated graphic, typography and signage work
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Preview: The Map House’s upcoming exhibition on the cartographic art of the Tube
‘Mapping the Tube: 1863-2023’ dives into the art and craft that shaped the world’s first underground railway, from posters to maps and the iconic designs of Harry Beck
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Phaidon’s new Graphic Classics is a lavish greatest hits of graphic design
Graphic Classics is a compendium of seven centuries of visual culture, from the everyday and ephemeral to visionary works that reshaped our world
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Yorgo&Co unveils Yota Fonts, its new type foundry
Parisian creative studio Yorgo&Co launches Yota Fonts, its online retail typeface catalogue with four new font families and matching accessories
By Léa Teuscher Published
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A hundred years of Triennale posters documented in a new book
Triennale posters from a century of exhibitions at the Milanese institution are the subject of a new book celebrating its history
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Phil Baines: remembering the work and teachings of a master typographer
Professor Phil Baines (1958 – 2024) was an inspirational teacher and an accomplished designer with an endlessly inquisitive eye
By Jonathan Bell Published
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The Shining: new book sheds alternative light on Kubrick’s infamous film
We speak to designer Craig Oldham, editor of the new book The Shining: a Visual and Cultural Haunting about this cross-cultural reframing of Stanley Kubrick’s epic film
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Designers contribute typography to the ‘The changing faces of Bowie’ poster
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Novel concept: Sonia Rykiel's Parisian outpost pays homage to local history
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Corporate identity by Jacob Jensen
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Balancing act: Karl Zahn’s poetic pieces take centre stage in the windows of New York’s ER Butler & Co
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Spoonful of sugar: Studio AH-HA gives Biocol a new graphic identity
By Sam Rogers Last updated
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Station to station: E&Y and Yuri Suzuki collaborate on ’Tube Map Radio’
By Jens H Jensen Last updated
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All in a Day's work: Twentytwentyone and the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation launch '100 Designs' poster
By Tom Howells Last updated
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Visual Communication
From graphic design to illustration and typography, here's the who's who of the bright young things making shapes
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Visual Communication
From typographic talents to virtual-reality virtuosos, the font of all knowledge is here
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Decorating Tate: branding specialists North refresh the museum’s identity
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Design luminaries come out to protect design patent rights
By Sam Rogers Last updated
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Visual Communication
The designers, illustrators and typographers communicating in bold new ways
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Condom advertising
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Hem’s new brand identity plays with architectural geometry and colour
The newly launched identity was created for Hem by London-based practice Made Thought with a specially developed typeface by Letters from Sweden
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Visual Communication
From print to pixels, these visual designers, illustrators and typographers have each emerged with a strong and clear voice
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Shop Herman Miller’s graphic design archives
Discover a shoppable collection of 15 Herman Miller posters from the brand’s graphic design history, including advertising campaigns by George Nelson, Irving Harper, Stephen Frykholm and more
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Public offering: Dimore Studio and The Future Perfect team up on a retail reveal
By Julie Baumgardner Last updated
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Moulding gold: in the studio with the Olympic and Paralympic medal makers
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Visual Communication
From pixels to paint brushes, this visual vanguard has a promising future
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated