I'm always pleased to meet people who give a shit. STATE are such an outfit. Progressive and inspired, the group have generated a solid fan base in the London design community.　Mark Hough, Philip O'Dwyer and Mark Bre...

OTTO GREENSLADE

2000.1.17　 Text: Mayumi Kaneko

This month's cover design was produced by Otto Greenslade, a multimedia creator living in London. You can see a number of interactive works with unique interfaces on his web site Chaotic. Though he has only been work...

KALIBER1000

1999.9.23　 Text: Nicolas Roope

I am working with this bald guy at the moment; a rather salubrious and slightly twisted character. His name is Toke and he's one of the two people behind KALIBER10000 (the other is mschmidt.) I'll be interviewing ...

THE DESIGNERS REPUBLIC

1999.7.3　 Text: Mayumi Kaneko

This month's cover design was produced by the world-famous designers group in the UK, The Designers Republic (DR). They have always been working out simple but innovative graphics and have had a strong influence on gr...

LIZ FABER

1999.6.23　 Text: Nicolas Roope

In the five years that Liz has been with the magazine she has seen some incredible changes in the world of commercial art and design. The magazine has been around for nearly 50 years and is consistent with it's o...

EYE MAGAZINE

1999.1.22　 Text: Nicolas Roope

There's nothing wrong with a bit of intellectualising; especially if it helps you understand what the hell it is you're doing, sitting there in the studio with you're little mouse wriggling around in your hand all day...

KLEBER

1998.7.21　 Text: Nicolas Roope

I don't know if you're a sucker for obscure, slightly up it's arse experimentation in structural / compositional form and language, but I am and I really like this site. When I first saw it was off the back of a ...

SLEAZE NATION

1998.4.21　 Text: Nicolas Roope

When I used to read in school history books about religious wars spanning centuries, I could never understand how anyone could care about anything enough to want to get that hurt. Since the last great wars we haven't ...

KARL HYDE

1998.3.20　 Text: Nicolas Roope

Considering I see Underworld more often than I see my Mum, I know precious little about them other than the obvious.A year off after their seminal success with Born Slippy and Second Toughestin the Infants, they are o...

PHIL CHOWDRY

1998.2.20　 Text: Nicolas Roope

The world style and gossip press seem obsessed with the stars and starlets of fashion and beauty, looking to them for examples and answers of how to live, how to dress and how to act. Problem is; stars are human and t...