Review: Design history
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…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that ‘you can’t…
Swiss style: the prequel
It all started with a letter that Dorothea Hofmann sat down to write to Philip…
Hippie shake-up
What do Victor Moscoso’s psychedelic music posters, Harley Davidson’s Captain America chopper, the film Easy…
Stuck in neutral
The scope of Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland is expansive. The editors have set…
Living in the present
You want inspiration? Buy this book! It is as simple as that. Cleverly exploring a…
A message for modernity
In the late 1950s I had tea in London with László Moholy-Nagy’s former secretary, surrounded…