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Words by Alex Bec, Wednesday 07 July 2010

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Standards Manual return with catalogue of 400 objects relating to New York City Transit 22 September 2017
Emma King's publication rewrites Orwell's "1984" using Donald Trump's tweets 22 September 2017
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day – it’s Best of the Web! 22 September 2017
Bolade Banjo photographs the perseverance of Detroit’s student athletes 22 September 2017
Alex Grigg animates Steve Stoute’s homage to Biggie Smalls 22 September 2017
Billy Clark applies his graphic sensibilities to his minimal yet textured illustrations 22 September 2017

Features / Writing The Ugliest Thing I Love: David OReilly critiques the worth of design magazines

This whole assignment is flawed, or perhaps I am a flawed candidate for it, because there is nothing I can point to and call ugly. To cast something as ugly in the context of aesthetics or morals is to say it shouldn’t exist, that it’s disturbing to our sensibilities and ought to go away. But this ignores the fact that the term beauty would have no meaning without it.

Will Hudson — 11 June 2015
Features / Writing The Pedestrian Process: Why going behind the scenes of the creative process isn't all it's cracked up to be

I recently watched PJ Harvey making an album in a Perspex box in Somerset House; an event that offered me a tantalising glimpse at the artist’s process. I was in earshot of the pops, whizzes and bangs of creativity, dodging the sparks of ideas flying around the room. My face was lit by a thousand lightbulbs, my heart pounding at the thrill of being privy to these eureka moments. Of course, it was nothing like this at all. It was, for the most part, quite boring.

Emily Gosling — 11 June 2015
Features / Writing The Name Game: Seven design studios explain their weird and wonderful names

From films to free association, happenstance to historical revolutionaries, what’s really in a name? Graphic design studios across the world have all manner of weird and wonderful back stories for why they’re called what they’re called…

Rob Alderson — 11 June 2015
Features / Writing Opening Night: A playful poke at the private views we love to hate

Thursday night’s hot ticket is this edgy little opening down on that square in the hip part of town, between the agency that makes the witty ads for car brands and that vegetarian bistro-thing.

James Cartwright — 11 June 2015
Features / Writing Nice: Jordy Van Den Nieuwendijk makes a concerted effort at self-improvement

I see her a lot lately; at least once and often twice a day. Always in the same place – never anywhere else – at the supermarket near my house. Seeing her there so regularly makes me wonder if she lives inside. I picture her sleeping on toilet paper beds, stealing table wines and going for all-you-can-eat sprees at the deli after closing time. I keep noticing the way she dresses herself; everything she wears looks carefully chosen. Her beige-clad peers could learn a lot from her.

It's Nice That — 11 June 2015
Features / Writing Nice: Kyle Platts urges us to channel the vocabulary of Simon Schama

Never has a word with such positive intent had such inflammatory implications as “Nice” does in the context of the art world. There are other words that wield a disarming blow of mediocrity but Nice is the atom bomb of the bunch. It pours a boiling pot of scorn all over the artist’s work. But why is this? It is after all a compliment and a positive gesture.

It’s Nice That — 10 June 2015