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The aesthetics of transience
With computers as the means for limitless manipulations of signs, designers now exalt subjectivity and impermanence
Truth lies in the surface
You can feel it. The unimpeachable authenticity of uncoated board
Information imagined
H2G2 animations anticipated the look and feel of future computers
Detach, detourne and consume
Alienation sells! The seductive flatness of Situationist aesthetics
Random thoughts
By dismantling sequential structure in The Unfortunates, B. S. Johnson broke with more conventions than Joyce or Sterne
Return of the picture
Illustration may be back in fashion, but for the profession to develop, practitioners must explore a more pictorial tradition of image-making
Mail art
In an ambitious programme, Royal Mail has commissioned four dozen illustrations that strive to encapsulate 1000 years of British history
Raised on ideas
The answers to the perceived threat of illustration's obsolescence lie in an understanding of the recent past, in education and in re-integration
The architect as illustrator
The uncompromising, gravity-defying constructiond of Zaha Hadid's practice owe their vision and form to reputation built on paper