In this issue Stuart Rogers does reflect on the strident anti-war messages, in the form of graffiti by urban guerillas. But an antidote, Alexey Brodovitch’s brilliant ballet photography, chronicled by Kerry Purcell, precedes it and keeps us calm.
Martin Andrews examines the history of contemporary book illustration and its techniques, with examples which underline his basic question: just ‘artwork, or fine art?
Next, our reader can discover the increasing relevance to designers of grids and stylesheets, then move on, possibly in the evening, to Caroline Archer’s story of the tart card industry.
Steven Heller writes on the history of graphic trade magazines, which he proposes as the ‘missing link’ in the evolutionary process of graphic design. Then the final part of our typographers lexicon brings us to a peaceful conclusion. For now.