Review: Visual culture
True confessions
Two recent exhibitions in London shone a light into some less explored corners of the…
Ring-bound to rule them all
Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines (Unit Editions, £75) follows Unit Editions’…
Concrete canvas
When a Banksy original turns up (usually prised off a wall) and sells for £300,000…
Elegantly nerdish
Cuneiform (the name means ‘wedge-shaped’) was, as far as these things can be…
Master of the minimal
When did logos begin? The wordmarks and symbols of Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s…
California is a state of mind
Rendered, on the cover of Metropolis’s American edition, in iridescent foil and set…
Learning from Ladybird
For any member of the generations who grew up with Ladybird Books, the mini-hardback…
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and…
Book of revelations
The uncontroversial premise of Multiple Signatures is that design is a collaborative…
Freestyling text and image
As a second-year undergraduate student at Reading in the early 1990s, I was shown the…