Contents:
Regulars and features
- Critique: Left out of the frame A collection of design shorts made for the COI is full of details, but short on context says Rick Poynor.
- Yin and yang Type guru Matthew Carter explains how he came to design his first wooden type.
- Uncoated Metahaven, Edward Tufte in London, TYPO Berlin. Plus Maira Kalman and wine labels.
Music design special issue
- Record sleeves are dead - long live music design! Iconic covers that defined an evocative era.
- Sound and vision From spectacle to content: time to find new, meaningful associations between music and design.
- Attacked by music, type & light Technology on tour. Noel Douglas talks to UVA's Matt Clark about their sets for Massive Attack.
- Classical crossroads Design meets serious music: long programme notes, small budgets and 'de-averaging'.
- Make music visible Big Active aims to make music tangible - with stars such as Keane, Goldfrapp and Beck.
- One man brand? Adrian Shaughnessy reassesses Manfred Eicher's label ECM in the light of a new publication.
- Formal lawlessness Fragmentation in the music industry has aided the rise of rock posters. Eric Heiman reports.
- Grab the hook 'Musicians are cooler, more fun and more creative than normal people.' Jane Cheng talks to Young Monster.
- Reputations Steven Heller interviews Alex Steinweiss, the designer who invented the album sleeve.
- Pack shots A new wave of extravagant music packaging: Unkle, Kate Moross, and Vaughan Oliver's Minotaur.
- Eye education Dan Fern explains his pioneering 'MAP / making' course - music, art and performance - at the RCA.
- All her own invention For decades, Laurie Anderson has used graphic means to tell stories. Interview by John L. Walters.
- Dot dot rock Zoë Street Howe on the black art of 'metal umlauts', with Motörhead, Mötley Crüe, Blue Öyster Cult, etc.
- Design + music = magic Sleeves and bags tell us what their contents sound like, says Fred Deakin. But what next?
- Scribble and strum From cool and literary to rude and crude: Andrew Losowsky looks at music mags old and new.
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