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Feature
![[Image: Victor Margolin and Russell Kenedy]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4b9a71561fb12.jpg "World history of design viewed in the big picture: An interview with Victor Margolin")
Respected author, academic and design thinker, Victor Margolin chats with Russell Kennedy, Icograda President about future directions in design and his anxiously awaited book on the history of design.
![[Image: Section of poster for festival, by Morteza Momayez]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4b9a71ab6b590.jpg "Contemporary graphic design of Iran")
Farshid Mesghali looks at the various factors present in the growth and evolution of graphic design in Iran and how a refreshed approach to the profession would help a new design generation truly tap in to the richness of this country.
![[Image: Legible London walking map]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4b9a720a38353.jpg "Walk This Way")
Jenny S. Reising walks us through the Legible London wayfinding system that aims to simplify a complex city and encourage walking, with the aim of making London one of the most walkable cities in the world by 2015.
![[Image: Tag for the colour blind]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4b9a72ea52c84.jpg "Reinventing the colour wheel")
Miguel Neiva presents ColorAdd® colour coding system for the colourblind. Now the first fully licensed design of its kind, ColorAdd® has become a challenging and motivating project for the designer, who is currently working with a multidisciplinary team in Portugal to expand its reach.
![[Image: Eric Karjaluoto]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4b9a736cea788.jpg "Brand Commandments")
This excerpt from Eric Karjaluoto's first book, Speak Human - Outmarket the Big Guys by Getting Personal, is a useful reference for agencies and clients alike to find, strengthen and be true to their brand. Being small, he argues, is precisely where the advantage lies.
![[Image: J. Brian Davies]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4b9a7ac5979b3.jpg "A tribute to J. Brian Davies")
We are grateful to past Icograda President (1987-1989) Niko Spelbrink, who drafted this tribute to Brian Davies. We remember Brian fondly for his contributions to Icograda and for his integrity, wisdom and wit.
![[Image: Michael Hardt]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4b9a7b3aebfd0.jpg "Design & Ethics: Good, bad, innocent or ignorant?")
Prof. Michael Hardt looks at the impact of unethical design on current global issues, and our growing recognition of the role designers play in this process. Are designers the victims or the culprit? Either way, if we designed the problem, we can design our way out of it.
![[Image: Russell Kennedy]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4b9a7b968bb21.jpg "Future direction")
Russell Kennedy, Icograda President 2009-2011, delivered the following address to the Icograda General Assembly 23 in Beijing, China on 25 October 2009.
![[Image: Cover of Artichoke magazine]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4b9a7d722332e.jpg "Higher ground")
Joanne Cys FDIA, DIA National President.
Reprinted with permission from Artichoke
![[Image: Roller coaster]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4b9a7e1789eba.jpg "Cultural and creative industries on the political agenda – taking the economy to the next stage")
The concept of the Creative Economy is vast. In this feature, reprinted from Issue 14 of DESIGN>, Rasmus Wiinstedt Tscherning explores the multi-disciplinary nature of the design fields, as well as their dynamic and unpredictable developments.
![[Image: Design by Aliona Solomadina, Ukraine]](/database/images/display/sb4b8edaec316e8.jpg "Design by Aliona Solomadina, Ukraine")
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