Review: Book design
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 …
Paranoia in the void
The selection of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina for the Man Booker longlist – the first time…
Body of work
In our digital age, when every image is available and mutable, when pornography is commonplace…
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a book was…
No fixed style
Among British independent record companies, Mute Records, founded in 1978 by ‘accident’, has never enjoyed…
Books on books
The London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA), founded in 2012 by artists Simon Goode and…