Review: Design history
Object lesson
Chris Ashworth’s Disorder (Thames & Hudson, £60) arrives in an almost absurd format: 490 pages…
Shall I share my screen?
David Reinfurt’s A *New* Program for Graphic Design had a novel origin: his entire graphic…
Shock and draw
The book is not just about a pioneer of hippie-era comics, but an account of a great artist – however problematic – of his time …
Client, designer, artist, printer
Specific conditions need to be in place for the production of graphic design that is…
Tight focus
The first page of the introduction to Typophoto lets us know what a daunting but exhilarating book faces the reader.
From exotic wonderland to self-determination
Leaving through this compendium of 900 posters, many produced in Africa but some in Europe, I…
Decorated sheds at the urban crossroads
In 1972, postmodern architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi proclaimed they were ‘learning from Las…
Prints of Persia: Islamic World Posters
Organised by the Iranian Academy of Art in association with the Saba Artistic and Cultural Center, this new event provided an opportunity to see artists not only from Iran, but also from Syria, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, the Sudan and elsewhere, whose work is rarely shown at poster biennials.
The look of young Japan
The title of this doorstop-sized tome says a lot about Japanese design all by itself. JPG…
Japan’s seismic changes
Much of the work shown in this impressive historical overview has rarely been published in the West …