Review: Design history
Cinematic storyteller
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is an enthralling visual document of King’s work from his student experiments to the groundbreaking visual histories of his later years …
Minard’s retirement plans
Sandra Rendgen’s The Minard System re-contextualises in book form for the first time the entire…
Adventures in the book trade
Printing R-Evolution’ has been an unexpected public success, confounding expectations that the incunabula period of…
Hard-working hooligans
Scan the pages of recent graphic design history, and its coverage of the rule-breaking mantras…
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…