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Architects, Designers and Planners: #BlackLivesMatter and You Must Speak Up!

Azure Magazine

The continued, unprovoked and senseless murders of Black people in public spaces, oftentimes in broad daylight at the hands of the power-hungry police and racist citizens living out childhood cops-and-robber fantasies with Black bodies, is infuriating. I will not accept your silence nor ignore that big-ass stain. That’s hip hop!

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From the New York Times to Pentagram sky is the limit for multi-awarded Matt Willey

Type room

Matt Willey , New York Times Magazine , New York Times , Pentagram , graphic designer , Type designer , books , Bristol , New York , Avaunt , Port , magazine , newspaper , The Independent. A magazine lover since his early days in the industry Willey felt “for a long time quite ambivalent about the idea of being a graphic designer.

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Critical Info: The Story Behind Building a Government COVID-19 Website

Speckyboy Design Magazine

It’s a fresh start and a chance to apply your skills towards public service. Suddenly, you’re charged with building a website that puts critical public health information out to the citizenry. I built my first website as a bored teenager in 1998 and learned Dreamweaver in college in 2002. Feels pretty good, right?

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(Almost) Never Demolish: Reviving Social Housing Through Preservation

Azure Magazine

Combining condo blocks with ample public amenities, the ongoing development — initiated in 2002 — is knitting a once-isolated neighbourhood back into the city. And in an era of limited public investment, the partnership with private developers meant that all those new condominiums helped pay for improved social housing.

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Gotham Font History: From GQ to the Barack Obama Campaign

Tuts Plus

Gotham was initially commissioned by GQ magazine. Gotham in Use While it was developed for a specific use, GQ’s exclusive license expired in 2002, and Gotham was later released for public use. "Shepard Fairey's Obama/Hope Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C." by istolethetv is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Remembering Nicholas Thirkell: “he took ideas to their ultimate expression”

Design Week

In 1970, we were invited by the Design Council to stage an exhibition of our collective output from our respective publishing houses and, following on from that, a wonderful piece in the prestigious Gebrauchsgrafik magazine. Chancellor had remarked to Editor Andreas Whittam Smith, “I thought we were joining a serious paper.”

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High-Tech Heroes: A Tribute to Richard Rogers and Chris Wilkinson

Azure Magazine

A challenge to stuffy museum design, his and Piano’s Centre Pompidou confounded critics, but was embraced by the general public. Inheriting Britain’s high-tech tradition, Wilkinson created the Magna science centre in Rotherham in 2001 and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in 2002, consecutive RIBA Stirling Prize awardees.