Review: Design history
An enquiring mind
Ken Garland (b. 1929) is something of an enigma in British graphic design. Not fitting…
Revolutionary material in the flesh
Glasgow’s Hunterian Gallery is home to a collection of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s portraits, yet…
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…