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Exploring the work of nanny and ‘secret photographer’ Vivian Maier

In some ways, Vivian Maier’s photography prefigured some of today’s most common Instagram tropes: there’s her early experiments with the mirror selfie; her subjects are only those things she encountered every day; and she was, to all intents and purposes, an amateur. To make a more simplistic comparison between Maier and Instagram, many of the images currently on show at...

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Why more type designers should break the rules

I’m always surprised by how my fonts are used. You can design something for very small sizes, for instance, and a graphic designer will shatter expectations and create something you never thought was possible with your typeface. It’s wonderful. Before specialising in type design, I originally studied graphic design. I think it helps to have that grounding, because even if...

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LogoLounge’s 2022 report documents the design trends of the moment

Each Spring, designer and LogoLounge founder Bill Gardner sits down with a huge list of international design submissions and slowly works his way through them, coaxing out telling trends and patterns within the world of logo design. This year was no different, with Gardner scrutinising more than 35,000 designs from over 200 countries, and documenting his findings in LogoLounge’s annual...