Review: Illustration
Living, breathing picturebooks
Starting from 1910 and ending in 2014, this large-format book shows illustrations…
Learning from Ladybird
For any member of the generations who grew up with Ladybird Books, the mini-hardback…
‘Typo’s guaranteed!’
Do you know of the calypso singer Mighty Sparrow? Or the jazz singer Slim Gaillard…
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and…
Prolific polymath
Pretty Pictures (Thames & Hudson, £42, $75) covers the astonishing body of work that…
Freestyling text and image
As a second-year undergraduate student at Reading in the early 1990s, I was shown the…
Unpacked baggage
Is any contemporary illustrator a household name today? Not in the same way that…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results…
Cute cultural tourism
Hello Kitty and Pokemon seem to have taken over the world in recent decades. But…
Studies in black, brown and beige
Handsome may be the word to describe this book, conceived by German illustrator…