Lester Beall

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Ring-bound to rule them all

Issue 90, Summer 2015

Review

Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines (Unit Editions, £75) follows Unit Editions’ Manuals 1, 201…

Dr Leslie’s type clinic

Issue 15, Winter 1994

Feature

Through its publications and gallery, the Composing Room promoted the new American design

Space, time and content

Issue 24, Spring 1997

Feature

Photomontage allowed Lester Beall to unite art, photography, typography and painting with revolutionary European ideas about layout and form

Dark tools of desire

Issue 63, Spring 2007

Feature

Surrealism’s relationship with graphic design is still strangely unfulfilled. By Rick Poynor

Political imagery re-examined

Issue 58, Winter 2005

Review

One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…

Recent blog posts about Lester Beall

Posters of protest and peace

7 July 2015
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Reviews

This Czech poster book contains much that is fresh and surprising, but makes some odd omissions. Review by Ken Garland
The context for the work shown in this book is usefully established by the 7…

A century of lick and stick

28 November 2013
Design history, Graphic design, Reviews, Visual culture

Michael Russem’s Postage Stamps By AIGA Medalists features graphic design in miniature from 1909-2007
Michael Russem’s book Postage Stamps by AIGA Medalists, showcases almost every known stamp designed by…

Design for drugs in NYC

7 October 2011
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Posters, Typography, Visual culture

Exhibition will explore the graphic world of pharmaceutical products
A new exhibition at The Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union will explore…