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Dance on the spot
Abbott Miller’s iPad contemporary dance apps for the 2wice Arts Foundation – a dynamic coming together of code, choreography, music and design – bring playful, digital interaction to loops and layers of physical performance
Critical heat on the Aegean coast
Gülizar Çepoğlu, Ayşegül İzer, Sarah Snaith
A workshop in a remote Turkish village gave international students a chance to explore what design can do when technology is scarce
Pay close attention
Adam Michaels and Prem Krishnamurthy of Project Projects bring deep cultural engagement to every aspect of their practice, both in their client work and in their personal ventures
Reputations: Mucho
John L. Walters, Simon Esterson
‘We were interested in working internationally, to learn from different cultures and to know how design behaves globally. We had international clients. But you really need people in those places to stay active. So the answer is sharing.’
Chasing perfection
From Penguin bestsellers to Royal Mail stamps; from elaborate playing cards to the covers of Radio Times; the illustrator and designer Tony Meeuwissen has always taken a dedicated and detailed approach to his exquisitely hand-crafted artwork. Mike Dempsey reflects on a career that has spanned more than 50 years
Truth to photographic materials
Platon specialises in arresting portraits of the world’s movers and shakers; now, with his People’s Portfolio, he’s aiming to tell another side of the story
Reputations: Irma Boom
‘I compare my work to architecture. I don’t build villas, I build social housing. The books are industrially made and they need to be made very well. I am all for industrial production. I hate one-offs. On one book you can do anything, but if you do a print run, that is a challenge. It’s never art. Never, never, never.’
To have and to hold
The challenges of digital publishing have galvanised a new spirit in book design and production. Is it just the decadent flourish of a disappearing format?
The hi-res past
E. M. Ginger’s company 42-line specialises in digital facsimiles of rare books, manuscripts and art.
Powered flight
For fifteen years, Pegasus, an international biannual corporate magazine designed by Derek Birdsall, led a charmed life.