Review: Design history
Information and emancipation
This book brings to light an audacious moment in the long career of civil rights…
A century of no, No, NO
An air of discontent has been fomenting in the US since the turmoil of the…
Waste not
For many years Vaughan Oliver was the in-house designer for the 4AD record label, creating…
Action to the word
Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch Posters 1960–1996, is an…
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd’s Stick Figures is a self-consciously polemical book that invites argument.
Gender and amnesia
Women Design features the work of 25 female designers and architects from the Bauhaus to…
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a book was…
Relics of a vanished world
‘It’s all about nostalgia now,’ writes Malcolm Garrett in his introduction to Letraset: The DIY…
Japanese traces
This winter, the Tokyo exhibition ‘Fragments of Graphism: An Alternative History of Graphic Design in…
A social process
Despite a long and eclectic career that variously spans design, printing, teaching, history and writing…