Review
Looking this way and that
In his introductory essay to Ed Fella’s book Lewis Blackwell writes: “America, unlike…
Heavy breathing at the crystal goblet
‘Graphic Design & Reading will be assigned reading for my graduate students this fall,’…
Light and shade at the picture house
The work of conceptualist photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto explores notions of ‘comparison…
A million stories in the naked city
The Light Surgeons’ LDN-Redux, which premiered in São Paulo in July, is a 35-minute…
Making history? Or writing about it?
Graphic design is such a pervasive part of everyday life it could easily be characterised…
Code and image
‘Decode: Digital Design Sensations’ promises to be a blockbuster for the new decade.…
Grandiose gaiety
In comparison to, say, London, Barcelona or Berlin, Paris is often seen as a ‘museum…
Recent Photobooks: a connoisseur’s guide
Martin Munkacsi
By F. C. Gundlach
Steidl, €48. Thames & Hudson, £39.95
In the 1930s…
Type tales told for ordinary folk
It was hard to avoid Just My Type in the weeks before its publication in October, with…
Comic sans the grown-ups
There are two names responsible for bringing comics ‘out of the trash and into a…