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This week I caught up with British-born/New York-based designer Craig Ward, whose work I’ve admired for years – particularly his typographic experiments with bacteria with ferrofluid and light. Recently he’s been playing with LEGO, creating a series of studies that he's collected on his instagram account
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In recent years, Peter Mendelsund has been shifting his career from designing books to writing them. The former Associate Art Director of Alfred A. Knopf already has a couple of non-fiction titles to his name – What We See When We Read and Cover, with another, The Look of the Book,
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Well congrats on the new design! First dumb question: why? Devin Pedzwater: SPIN had to change. Last April, we decided to completely rethink everything about the brand. We committed ourselves to the challenge of looking beyond how we were operating and re-conceiving the SPIN brand as if it were being
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You've set up your own consultancy, Mark Porter Associates. How are you finding it, not being part of an in-house team anymore? It's very liberating. The Guardian was a wonderful place to work for a long time, and I got to do some some fantastic projects.
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Few type foundries display as much love for their craft as Delaware's House Industries. Established in 1994, they've amassed an impressive collection of fonts, and created all manner of type-related products along the way (clothing lines, furniture, toys – not to mention their exquisitely-designed catalogues). They'
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Every year since 2005, graphic designer Nicholas Felton has produced a personal annual report, collating and quantifying an assortment of of facts and figures about his life. Illustrating each one with all manner of graphs, tables and beautiful, beautiful maps (including one that could be folded into an icosahedron), he