TOPIC

Graphic design

2 articles from all sections, newest first.

ESSAY

Designed Certainty: Why Information Is Never Just Content

A graphic does not simply show things as they are: it directs the gaze, puts magnitudes in relation to one another and makes some things disappear. The Frankfurt exhibition “On Display” demonstrates why reading design is a form of media literacy.

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EDITORIAL

Form Is No Side Issue

A seating arrangement, a graphic, a living space: our Culture Week reveals how much depends on supposedly superficial matters. Bernd Bartolome on the art of taking questions of form seriously – without declaring every design decision sacrosanct.

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