Editorial

Product information can share an identity without losing its distinct instructional job.

A magazine layout can carry an editorial attitude before its text is read.

Hara asks designers to make familiar things available to attention again.

A catalogue can explain a design programme rather than merely list products.

A presentation sells relationships between objects, materials and rooms.

Numbered parts connect a compact document to a complicated physical machine.

A series cover balances the identity of one book with the order of a library.

Papanek asks designers to account for the social and ecological consequences of what they make.

Emigre made experimental digital typography part of a magazine's content and business.

Bruce Mau and the Institute without Boundaries used an exhibition and book to examine design at the scale of systems.

A magazine that is an artwork, which is an object, which is... crazy.

Tschichold’s authority came from codifying constraints — not taste.

He didn’t design the fonts—he designed how they were seen.