Review: Book design
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…
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…