The Power Issue, in which we examine the true influence of design and the designer.
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UP FRONT and DEPARTMENTS
Design Brief: Our gloss on “The Bases of Social Power”
Grids+Guides: Damn good advice from George Lois, mapping a fake transit system, and an exhibition of American political design
Back Issue : Editor emeritus Martin Fox picks the two most powerful figures in graphic design.
Reviews: Zines at the Architectural Association, a new anthology of avant-garde comics, and artists’ prints at MoMA
The Goods: A vintage-y new album from Laura Veirs, the latest from a book-editor-turned-designer, good works from Starbucks, and an exercise in branding
In the Studio: The Italian illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli lets us peek into her office.
One Perfect Thing: Michael Silverberg unfurls the flag.
Observer: Rick Poynor on the power designers do and don’t have.
Education: Joe Marianek updates Michael Bierut’s classic essay “Why Designers Can’t Think.”
Dialogue: Twitter’s 19th-century predecessor gets a biopic. Steven Heller explores.
World View: Hala A. Malak and Tarek Atrissi propose an old symbol for a new Arab identity.
Best Practices: Jeremy Lehrer on the data-viz whiz kids trying to save the planet.
Interaction: Christopher Butler tries to imagine a screen-free future.
Stereotype: Paul Shaw and Stephen Coles on fat faces, then and now
Inside the archive of the 1990s feminist punk movement
By Margaret Eby
An interview with the Occupy artist of Paris ’68
By William Bostwick
What happens to design when we’re afraid to take on our sacred cows?
by Alexandra Lange
Using social media to
build a temple to the
printed word
by Eva Hagberg
Small-town politics
wrestles with the branding revolution ushered in by the Obama campaign.
by Fritz Swanson