Blog: Reviews

4 April 2012

Graphic design by Richard Hollis

Graphic design by Richard Hollis

Mark Thomson reviews the exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers in London
There are few occasions when something is genuinely unmissable, writes Mark Thomson, but for designers…

2 April 2012

Technology and myth

Technology and myth

Klimowski and Schejbal give graphic life to Stanislaw Lem’s robots. Review by Robert Hanks
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) is usually considered an author of science fiction, but though his stories…

19 March 2012

Bigger, brighter, better

Bigger, brighter, better

matt edgar, pam bowman

Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar report from Dublin conference Offset 2012
Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar report from the Offset 2012 conference in Dublin. Part one…

12 March 2012

Look for the purple lining

Look for the purple lining

catherine griffiths

Catherine Griffiths on another link between fashion and photography.
As a graphic designer in the late 1980s, working my career in London, I used my…

21 February 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

Reflections of a typographer: Matthew Carter on Modern Typography
Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History by Robin Kinross, now in its reprinted second edition…

5 February 2012

Scarcity and silence: Amc2

Scarcity and silence: Amc2

rick poynor

Image collisions that make a bracing change from the unstoppable flow.
Our insatiable hunger for images is a peculiar thing, writes Rick Poynor in his latest…

2 February 2012

Getting away with murder

Getting away with murder

Good, bad and ugly cover ‘tributes’: a new spin on the death of music design.
The album cover may have lost its mojo as far as contemporary culture is concerned…

7 December 2011

Stamp collection

Stamp collection

dannalie diaz

Royal Mail delivers another set of small-scale graphic design
This year’s edition of the Royal Mail Yearbook is another eclectic collection of British graphic…

1 November 2011

Blurred boundaries

Blurred boundaries

steven mccarthy

The hybrid state of ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’
The typeface Union, a synthesis of Helvetica and Arial, is ‘intended for situations where Helvetica…

27 October 2011

Who cares about the LDF?

Who cares about the LDF?

alex cameron

Will graphics ever become more than 3% of the London Design Festival?
As the dust settles after the ninth London Design Festival (LDF), thoughts are now turning…
 
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