Blog: Reviews

2 September 2011

Notes on a betrayal

Notes on a betrayal

brendan dawes

A brief encounter with Monocle’s luxury stationery range
As a self-confessed stationery geek who gladly pays money every month to receive stationery goods…

30 August 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Lust and likeability #5: Stormtype’s ‘over-the-top’, ‘edible’ Jannon
More words about type in this critique of Jannon by Jan Middendorp, Petra Černe Oven…

10 August 2011

This city’s made of light

This city’s made of light

catherine dixon

24 hours of (normal) London life, told by The Light Surgeons in São Paulo
The Light Surgeons are a London-based collective of multimedia artists set up by Christopher Thomas…

29 July 2011

Visual sonata

Visual sonata

john l. walters

The Quay Brothers create an intimate spectacle for Bartók and beyond.
Film-makers might spend a lot of time and effort trying to make a set look…

29 June 2011

Wim in space

Wim in space

jessica jenkins

Crouwel at the Design Museum – a voyage of discovery into form-making
The Design Museum’s Wim Crouwel retrospective offers a voyage of discovery into form-making – the…

27 June 2011

Labyrinth of magazines

Labyrinth of magazines

john l. walters

Segovia’s Enformato brings together European design / visual culture titles.
Earlier this year, the newly refurbished Palacio Quintanar in Segovia, northern Spain, held an exhibition…

19 June 2011

Andmoreagain

Andmoreagain

john l. walters, simon esterson

Web typography comes of age at Brighton’s Ampersand conference
Is the humble ampersand a symbol for our additive times? During the morning sessions for…

15 June 2011

Crowded house of animation

Crowded house of animation

john l. walters

‘Watch Me Move’ at the Barbican shows the medium’s waking dreams
Part art show, part spectacle, part viewing library, ‘Watch Me Move’, the new Barbican Gallery…

13 June 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Lust and likeability #2: talking about Rayuela by Alejandro Lo Celso
Rayuela (‘Hopscotch’) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar in which the reader is…

7 June 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Lust and likeability: an informal jury puts type into words: #1 Odile
Elegant, chunky, laugh-out-loud, nervy, bookish, perfumed … our informal jury puts type into words with…
 
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