Archive for category: Graphic design

Daring critique of design criticism    (2013.07.07)

Are pizza flyers good design? Don’t ask a design intellectual

(Re)vision(ism) of ACT UP (demo)graphics    (2013.06.23)

Some dumb twat retypeset “ACT UP” with Arial. And nominating Julianne Escobedo Shepherd as buzzword-wielding vizmin of the year

Gran Fury’s artwork for ACT UP    (2013.04.24)

Seemingly every ACT UP artwork created by Gran Fury on the Flickrs

‘Eye’ 84    (2013.03.05)

Eye’s Monotype special, in which Ultrasparky has never seemed more Ultrastilted

New York City MTA Graphic Standards Manual    (2013.02.19)

Presented in a manner you can actually understand and use: The New York City MTA Graphic Standards Manual (1970)

‘Eye’ 83    (2013.01.22)

Eye 83, filled to the brim with features on designers you’ve read about for decades and other designers so successful they don’t need clients anymore

Toronto designers: The most important design book of the decade is now easy to get your hands on    (2013.01.17)

You can now borrow Chasing the Perfect from the library, thanks to me

Bowie/Barnbrook    (2013.01.09)

Compare and contrast: David Bowie, “The Next Day”; R.E.M., Out of Time

Manufactured landscapes    (2012.12.30)

Philip Stearns’ pixelated landscapes