Alex J. Todd
Recent articles by Alex J. Todd
Everyday people
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Emma Thomas and Kirsty Carter’s Apfel, A Practice for Everyday Life, brings design into the art…
Where was Weimar?
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
The era of the Weimar Republic, which emerged in Germany in the wake of the…
Designing with urgency
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
From politics to culture to business, Dutch studio Thonik strikes a balance between adventurous…
Hard-working hooligans
Issue 98, Spring 2019
Scan the pages of recent graphic design history, and its coverage of the…
Action to the word
Issue 98, Spring 2019
Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch…
Point of difference
Issue 97, Autumn 2018
Enigmatic imagery and restrained typography give HR membership quarterly Work. the visual…
Duck the issue
Issue 96, Spring 2018
Surveying a decade of electoral shocks, coups d’état, demonstrations and…
Recent blog posts by Alex J. Todd
From analogue to activism
11 November 2020
magCulture Live goes digital next week, for a two-day conference that celebrates the creative and social powers of magazines
Dividing its focus between ‘activism’ and ‘analogue’, magCulture 2020 shows that even in difficult, disruptive times, printed magazines keep their fingers on the pulse of the moment, writes Alex J. Todd.
Crouwel’s institutional intuition
19 September 2020
On the first anniversary of Wim Crouwel’s death, Alex J. Todd recalls a visit to the Stedelijk Museum exhibition ‘Mr. Gridnik’
On 19 September 2019, nine days before the opening of ‘Wim Crouwel: Mr. Gridnik’ at the Stedelijk Museum, Crouwel died, aged 90, in Amsterdam, writes Alex J. Todd.
Books received #33
18 July 2018
Covers for The New Yorker, Dressed in Black, Female Photographers Now, Graham Rawle’s Overland, A History of Street Photography, Rebel Voices and Brian Eno’s Light Music
Here is a selection of books that caught our attention in recent months.