Like everyone else, designers and design studios are facing unprecedented times at the moment as they navigate a new landscape in light of the coronavirus crisis. And whether you’re adjusting to working from home, self-isolating, or enduring any of the countless new challenges we now face, we wanted to offer a small gesture of community support.Since last week we’ve been sharing some of the Q&A interviews from our very first book, Studio Culture: The Secret Life of the Graphic Design Studio (2009), as a series of free, downloadable PDFs, in advance of our Kickstarter campaign to publish a follow-up edition, Studio Culture Now.We hope that these texts not only keep you occupied, but that they offer some advice, inspiration and a...

The following is an edited version of the interview between Michael Burke and R. Roger Remington that appears in Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines – available to pre-order now from the Unit shop (and shipping later this month). Professor Michael Burke is a design scholar and expert on information graphics, and has enjoyed a career spanning England, the United States and Germany. Burke studied graphic design and later taught at Ravensbourne (formerly Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication) in London, at Ohio State University, Rochester Institute of Technology and the Dessau Department of Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. He is a professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbish Gmünd, one of Germany’s leading design schools, where he has been on the...