Review: Design history
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…
An enquiring mind
Ken Garland (b. 1929) is something of an enigma in British graphic design. Not fitting…
Revolutionary material in the flesh
This travelling exhibition – organised by the Hayward Gallery, London – features posters, flyers, books and film from all the leading strands of twentieth-century Modernism.
What a wind-up! Four decades of problems and ‘style’
British Design & Art Direction – D&AD – is 40 years old and, like many…
Art without its bitter history
I have a problem with Stalin’s face. He looked exactly like my cat. Exactly. This…
The eye of the curator
Exhibitions of graphic design are difficult. Posters do OK: they are the paintings of graphic design. But how about brochures, books, magazines and the like?
History’s role in the studio
Now in its sixth year, the ‘Modernism and Eclecticism’ symposium organised by Steven Heller in…