Dan Nadel

Recent articles by Dan Nadel

The look of young Japan

Issue 48, Summer 2003

Review

The title of this doorstop-sized tome says a lot about Japanese design all by itself. JPG…

Reputations: Cal Schenkel

Issue 53, Autumn 2004

Feature

‘They were Frank’s identities, and he controlled them … I was really just satisfying these various concepts.’

Parallel grooves

Review

The story of Mingering Mike is the sort of once-in-a-lifetime, too-good-to-be-true story every collector or historian…

Macho brick v. the taste-making monograph

Review

MACHO BRICK V. THE TASTE-MAKING MONOGRAPH 136 Points of Reference By Browns Edited by Jonathan Ellery…

The fellowship of Pentagram

Review

There are, as editor Susan Yelavich writes in her incisive and witty introduction, six books about…

Werkman and the art of type [EXTRACT]

Review

In the latest edition of the Monographics book series, Alston Purvis describes H. N. Werkman as…

The end of a punk-rock dream [EXTRACT]

Review

This doorstop of a book is the tale of two Latina friends and lovers, Maggie and…

No-frills chronicle of a publisher

Issue 57, Autumn 2005

Review

Phil Baines’s scholarly book, jammed with more than 500 covers, is a straightforward, no-frills chronicle…

Back into battle

Issue 51, Spring 2004

Feature

Nicholas Blechman’s ’zine is a barbed response to contemporary US politics