Review: Design history
The museum man
This confidently displayed show draws a line in the sand. It secures the De La…
Poland’s graphic pioneers
Publications attempting a comprehensive overview of a country’s graphic design history have appeared on a…
Scissor action
John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weapon (David King and Ernst Volland, Tate Publishing, £29.9…
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…
Master of the minimal
When did logos begin? The wordmarks and symbols of Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s, Mercedes-Benz, Bayer, Shell and…
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and September 2014…
Thirty years before the masthead
This book is a lavishly illustrated summary of the three decades when Swiss typography journal…
We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark
In the early 1990s I produced a number of facsimile editions of publications of the…
More than a gender
‘I never set out to be the only woman blah-blah,’ insists Paula Scher, the first…
Design history disciplined
What kind of discipline is graphic design history? Catherine de Smet provided one answer in…