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Design and designers – getting to know the names.

Every discipline has its own language and its own narrative. And stories need heroes. Part of getting to grips with design lay in understanding the history and the key players. Slowly my awareness of the output of graphic designers was growing. There were exhibitions...

Heaven and helvetica

It is hard to believe today, but there was a time when Helvetica was a rare and costly resource. In my early graphic design studies, I was impressed by the work of Swiss and German typographers and one thing that seemed to characterise them was a cool and distinctive...