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#184
Wallace Henning
The untold design story behind the British Rail identity system
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#183
Maisie Willoughby
On being praised as a ‘female-gaze photographer’ while doubting the category itself
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#181
Jess Bonham and Anna Lomax
How a cardboard washing machine led two illustrators into still life collaboration
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#176
Roberto Rosolin
Six years of no-brief, no-budget art direction for fabric’s legendary club flyers
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#171
Phil Sharp
The meditative pull of street portraits taken between London Bridge and Stoke Newington
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#167
Otegha Uwagba
Why women in the creative industries need to talk openly about money
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#166
Dr.me
How a year of daily collages turned into a contemporary collage book
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#164
Supermundane
On kindness, equality and singing a love song to kerning
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#163
Zelig Sound
From animatic to final mix – inside the craft of bespoke sound design
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#161
Hayley Louisa Brown
Why rap shows feel like punk gigs and the magazine born from that energy
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#156
Mushpit
How a student-loan zine grew into a glossy with no advertisers
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#154
Erik Kessels
Why creative people should embrace mistakes, look stupid and learn from amateurs
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#147
Stuart Tolley
Designing a book on minimalism without making it look effortless
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#142
Juno Calypso
Sneaking self-portraits at grandma’s house and a couples-only honeymoon resort alone
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#139
Kevin King
Inside the anonymous record sleeve sale where buyers don’t know what they’re getting
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#135
Michael Driver
Surviving the first six months of freelance illustration after graduating from Kingston
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#134
Camille Walala
From a neighbour’s back wall to painting the ugliest buildings in London
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#126
Carl Turner
Why architects should pick up tools and build the houses they design
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#125
Zelda Malan
Why art school thinking should never leave you, no matter where you work
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#122
Matteo Fogale
Why cutting out the middleman in furniture design is harder than it looks
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#119
Studio Swine
Making furniture from street rubbish and beautifully embracing every mistake
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#118
Sarah Boris
How different parameters shape the form of every beautiful book
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#108
Carol Montpart
Making a magazine about plants that moves at the pace of nature
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#107
Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh
Designing the outcome, not the object – how a playful putty empowers everyday fixers
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#92
Karl Toomey
Inventing useless objects, fake footballers and the joy of pointless ideas
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#91
Malika Favre
Distilling a Canary island into six illustrations, sketched from a week of photographs
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#88
Beth Wilson And James Gilchrist
Building Scotland’s first graphic design festival from a kitchen table
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#78
Luke Evans
Travelling the world from a kitchen table – using flour, salt and a tilt-shift lens
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#75
Kyle Platts
Learning to animate was like breathing life into existing characters
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#72
The Butchers Apron
Six lessons in making radio, from rogue interviews to recording under a duvet
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#62
Rick Banks
How a mis-printed Schmeichel shirt sparked a charity book on football lettering
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#58
Kit Neale
Folk traditions, football terraces and the case for men dressing up every day
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#50
Danielle Pender
Building a smarter women’s magazine that celebrates achievement over appearance
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