Critical publications dedicated to the analysis of Graphic Design are sadly few and far between today, particularly in France, but also in Europe as a whole. Adopting an analytical and critical posture with regard to the forms and activities of Graphic Design, Sacha Léopold and François Havegeer established in 2017 a printed publication that deals with these practices.

This issue:

I approach the man behind the glass. He doesn’t look at me. I hand him my passport. ‘Why are you in Norway?’ he asks, flipping through its pages. ‘To work’, I reply, plainly. ‘What kind of work?’ ‘Research’, I respond, reveling in the evasiveness (surely, a privilege). He goes again: ‘What kind of research?’.  I finally spill the beans: ‘fashion research’. He repeats the F*word as his eyes finally meet mine. Norway and fashion. Fashion and research. I can’t work out which combination of words threw him. Perhaps all four.