Review: Book design
Max’s life is all mapped out
It is Max’s story of artistic struggle, hard work and self-belief [and] the emergence of graphic design as a discipline
Data storytelling in late Victorian London
The design community is currently fascinated by data storytelling. Everyone wants to design visual tales…
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
Cinematic storyteller
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is an enthralling visual document of King’s work from his student experiments to the groundbreaking visual histories of his later years …
Adventures in the book trade
Printing R-Evolution’ has been an unexpected public success, confounding expectations that the incunabula period of…
Hard-working hooligans
Scan the pages of recent graphic design history, and its coverage of the rule-breaking mantras…
Easy reading
Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…
File under undefined
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) spent most of his life trying to remain uncategorised and undefined. Despite…
Rules of engagement
Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…
An old-fashioned alien invasion
Oldham’s project has been more than two years in the making, and They Live’s enduring impact on visual culture makes it a good place to start …