Review: Book design
Decorated sheds at the urban crossroads
In 1972, postmodern architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi proclaimed they were ‘learning from Las…
The fellowship of Magnum
In a world of real-time reporting and satellite links, the seemingly infinite range of subjects found in this mammoth book is surely a sign of the photo-story’s continuing relevance.
Deadpan Dutch design
Dutch design, say the authors, is not something confined to The Netherlands; it is more of a spirit or an approach with global reach and global implications.
You can’t bomb a virus
In the early 1990s at the Design Museum café, mentally flitting from the coffee-machine’s slick Gaggia…
Optimism and bias
Far more people have heard of Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas than have encountered the…
Read this space
Catherine Griffiths: Solo in [ ] Space by Zhihua Duan with Catherine Griffiths is ostensibly the…
Enter by the exit level
The latest instalment in Unit Editions’ ongoing series of designer monographs, Ed Fella: A Life in…
Feminist pot-luck
If you can get your hands on an original copy of Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, consider yourself lucky – it was printed in an edition of just 100 copies …
Pictoglyphic time travel
If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s…
Drawn from the capital
London can be a hard city to love, but David Gentleman always finds good reasons, which…