Feature: Design history
Radical platform
From its early grassroots days, Spare Rib provided a groundbreaking public arena for women’s issues…
Lovable loser
A daring approach to sports journalism earned the short-lived Jock magazine a place in design history
This woman’s work
Kate Hepburn’s design career, embracing pioneering magazines such as Spare Rib and Vole as well as…
We Made This: Technical challenge
Sarah Snaith talks to Briar Levit, director of a new film on the history of graphic design
A house that type built
Type foundry House Industries – the subject of a hefty new monograph and a retrospective exhibition near…
Expressive geometry
Kabel, Rudolf Koch’s eccentric, geometric 1920s typeface, has been revived as a 21st century type family…
Take my concept
Boris Bućan’s early posters display an audacity that challenges divisions between graphic design and…
Stamped in the memory
The Gentle Author’s book about East London print and envelope specialists the Baddeley Brothers…
James Mosley: A life in objects
Through his ideas, collecting and dogged research, the former St Bride librarian has shown that printing…
The first couple of American billboards
Otis and Dorothy Shepard, the ‘Scott and Zelda’ of mid-century advertising graphics, were neglected when…