Review
Wordplay for a picture palace
In classical texts on the ‘art of memory’, the student is advised to visualise…
Cold war modern machine music
Music humanises technology: from the thump of a hunter’s bone to the whine of a…
If not for design …
Books about design aimed at a relatively broad audience that are historically…
From logo to holo
This is the first book that has taken me ten minutes just to look at its cover. Its…
Out of the shallows
This photograph of a deliriously colourful 1969 swimming pool designed by Verner…
Duo-tome
In 2013, the overblown, completist pretensions of a career-defining monograph seem…
Letters on location
Many francophiles would say that there are more interesting, beautiful cities to…
Mr Beck’s uke map
Just over a hundred years ago the music business experienced its first major crisis.…
The physics of sitting
Brian Lutz’s Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman will appeal to all designers – as…
More than a gender
‘I never set out to be the only woman blah-blah,’ insists Paula Scher, the first…