The graphic design canon. Is there one? And if there is, who’s in it? Josef Müller-Brockmann? Paul Rand? Armin Hoffman? Milton Glaser? Otl Aicher? Alan Fletcher? You could make a strong case for each of these designers, and a few dozen others. But how many of them would be women?The question of female representation in […]
As the creator of Apple’s original graphic interface icons, Susan Kare has a unique place in design history. She talks to Sean Ashcroft about a modern art with ancient roots
Hall of Femmes is an initiative by Swedish design studio Hjärta Smärta which aims to bring to wider attention the work of leading female designers via a series of lectures and books. In this extract from the first book, Hjärta Smärta’s Angela Tillman Sperandio and Samira Bouabana interview Ruth Ansel, art director of some of […]
For two decades the vivid work of Morag Myerscough has been enlivening our urban environment
The legendary Margaret Calvert talks type, roadsigns and the designer’s responsibility to the public in this interview from Design Indaba TV filmed after her talk at AGI Open, in 2013
The latest book from Hall of Femmes focuses on the work of US designer, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. In this extract, she discusses her long career and how the development of ‘supergraphics’ enabled her work on a big, bold Californian scale
As a designer, Deborah Sussman has been shaping the graphic landscape of Los Angeles since the 1960s. On the eve of the first exhibition dedicated to her early work, she talks to CR about her relationship with this unique city
After 13 years at Wolff Olins, Marina Willer is to become Pentagram London’s first female partner. The Brazilian-born designer and film-maker talks about the challenge ahead and the lack of women in senior design positions
To coincide with the publication of Paula Scher: Works, Unit Editions staged an evening with the US graphic designer where she offered up ten excellent pieces of advice for designers
Finnish artist Tove Jansson is best known as the creator of the Moomins. But a new exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery shows another side to her career