Review
Handy hardback memories
Generations of children have grown up with Ladybird books. Between 1940 and 1980, 646…
Is it a comic? No, it’s history
Sequels are rarely a good idea – unless they happen to be The Godfather. Reinventing…
Books received in Eye 39
Bartlett Book of Ideas
Edited by Peter Cook
Bartlett School of Architexture, UCL £15
A…
Political punch
The refreshing thing about David Huxley’s heavily illustrated history of British…
Another look at British identity
The Bus is part a then-and-now portrait portfolio, part autobiography, part essay on…
Always in flux
The first major museum-based American graphic design exhibition in fifteen years…
Playing to their special strengths
The Tower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa and Mickey Mouse of the postcard world is that pioneer…
Facing up to unreality
In an essay in the catalogue accompanying this large-scale exhibition, curator William A.…
Nuffin’ like a Puffin
Phil Baines’s Penguin by Design: A Cover Story (2005) was, even at a glance, a marvellous…
A sign of moral degeneration?
Is the swastika so tainted by the horrors of Nazism that it cannot, should not, be used…