Review: Book design
In praise of infrastructure: BR’s corporate identity manual is resurrected
The British Rail Corporate Identity Manual was a labour of love for Wallace Henning, a…
More than just a gridnik
Wim Crouwel: Modernist is the disingenuously bald title of a richly textured portrait of the…
The ‘bookness’ of books
Hundreds of books about books have been published during the past century. A complete bibliographic…
Industrialised folk art
Alexander Girard ‘brought together what the modern had once separated: craftsmanship and industry, folk art…
Eventure playground
Boooook is the first publication to give a retrospective overview of the life and work…
Automonography
Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as…
Learning from Ladybird
For any member of the generations who grew up with Ladybird Books, the mini-hardback format…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is beautifully…
From the typographic to the visual
This book’s title is a librarian’s nightmare. It differs by only three letters from that of…
Peak practice: beautiful Swiss books
As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…