Contents:
Critique
- All mouth and trousers? Challenged to design a poster, UK designers show mostly how little they care for the form By Rick Poynor
Features
- Archive: The shape of the century How 1960s Op Art and the cut-up culture informed the cover designs of Fontana Modern Masters paperbacks in the 1970s By James Pardey
- Reputations: Karsten Schmidt 'If we don't take responsibility as makers we sacrifice everything ... We have the power! The people who create things, make things work, we have the power. No politician has that.' Interview by John L. Walters. Photograph by Jillian Edelstein
- The show must go on Buy a pension of a huge collection of theatrical type? For Celia Stothard and her partner, Alan Kitching, the choice was clear. By Celia Stothard. Photographs by Phil Sayer
Uncoated
- Preview: Decode
- Monitor: Repossession After years of wrangling the posters that the Nazis stole from Hans Sachs are to be returned. But would they be better off in a Berlin museum? By Stephen Heller
- Reviews Including Ed Ruscha, Make / Think in Memphis, Studio Culture, Douglas Jeffery, Freedom Rhythm & Sound, Logorama, Parrworld, Dieter Rams, Emigre no. 70
- Education: Volkssport design - live and let live? Is the design profession at risk thanks to globalised hordes of web-savvy amateurs? By Florian Schmidt. Illustration by Adam Simpson
- Colophon
Berlin special
- Eye visits Berlin to explore the graphic output of this sprawling, labyrinthine and endlessly fascinating city Introduction by Jan Middendorp. Illustration by Siggi Eggertsson
- Berlin snapshots Adeline Mollard, Fageta; Mark Diaper, Eggers + Diaper; Joachim Sauter, ART+COM; Chris Rehberger, Double Standards Interviews by John Ridpath
- Six degrees of Erik Spiekermann Three decades of networking. It can seem that every other designer is linked to Berlin's 'Meta man' - whether they've been hired, fired taught, criticised or championed by him Compiled by Liz Farrelly. Timeline designed by Jay Prynne
- Berlin snapshots Nick Kapica, SV Associates; Tobias Kohlhaas, Weiss-Heiten; Toby Cornish, Jutojo; Gesine Grotrian-Steinweg and Fons Hickmann, Fons Hickmann m23
- Depth of field Detlef Weitz and Rose Epple (chezweitz & roseapple) are the new scenographers, who persuade museum curators to take the integrated approach. By Jessica Jenkins
- Before and after East met West Much of a city's history is written in its street signs. Berlin-born Verena Gerlach has turned their shapes and stories into typefaces
- Berlin snapshots Steve and Rilla Alexander, Rinzen; Anna Haas; Siggi Eggertsson
- On message Content is king at Nicolas Bourquin's Onlab, but its editorial focus incorporates a flair for visual delight and conceptual ingenuity. By John L. Walters
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