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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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Project
2013
Graphic Design: New issue Gratuitous Type knocks our ruddy socks off
Project
2017
James Bannister breaks down Las Vegas’ facade of success and glamour in What Makes Grass Grow In the Desert
Project
2019
“Impartial, independent and impractical at all times”: meet the South London Review of Hand Dryers
Project
2015
Mocking cynicism for troubles of the heart, courtesy of Les Peines de l’Amour
Motion
2017
Alexandre Louvenaz’ animation literally craps on home makeover TV shows
Project
2007
We've Moved On, Why Can't You?
Project
2018
Max Siedentopf explains why creative perfection is a dead end
Project
2014
Miscellaneous: Point and laugh in disbelief with blog Ugly Belgian Houses
Project
2012
A quick, questioning look at the Turner Prize nominees announced today
Garment
2012
Aurelien Juner takes a subversive, striking look at fashion glossies
Project
2016
Stunning work and canny advice from Yale graphic design critic Julian Bittiner
Thinker
Edward Said
Poster
2014
Technology and Food Alienation
Project
2025
Andrew J Park’s paintings prompt personal reflection through VCR distorted nostalgia
Project
2019
"Trump the Tease": Aleksandra Mir explores what 87 headlines say about our media consumption
Project
2013
Opinion: Can we really all learn web design lessons from The Daily Mail?
Project
2015
Marc Kremers slams rampant conformism in the design world
Poster
2020
All foul moral traits are manifested in American politicians
Poster
2021
Ce sont les soviets qui tirent les ficelles du Front populaire
Project
2019
Benjamin Muzzin on how digital art needs to be “shaken up badly”
Project
2026
POV: Graphic design schools are teaching tech, but are they teaching taste?
Project
2015
"You aren't a winner of design awards unless you pay" – is it worth it?
Project
2016
Felicity Hammond's art sends up the visual language of luxury property developers
Project
2022
“Every young person is different”: How the student loan ban for non-academic students will damage creativity
Project
2008
I Can't Go For That
Project
2015
London developers' bullshit and how the city's public spaces are becoming private
Brand
2012
Follow-up: University of California
Brand
2009
The Best and Worst Identities of 2009
Project
2018
Why Design Thinking is bullshit
Project
2017
“Meetings kill creativity” – Timothy Goodman takes a typographic jab at workplace banality
Project
2022
Jae Yeon Kim’s wacky 3D designs are “a gentle way of revolting over unhealthy tradition and stereotypes”
Brand
2018
Zumba Fake Redesign
Project
2025
Are these artworks a delicious bite out of capitalism? Or are they cake?
Brand
2013
American Airlines, a Second Opinion