Review: Graphic design

 
Japan’s seismic changes

Japan’s seismic changes

Much of the work shown in this impressive historical overview has rarely been published in…
 
Modernism in the slow lane

Modernism in the slow lane

In the years before the Second World War, Britain was slow to embrace the most…
 
Pocket polymath

Pocket polymath

Decades before it became almost de rigueur to present yourself as a practitioner – and…
 
The nature of a pencil

The nature of a pencil

In this chunky white book Kenya Hara traces his career by filling the pages with some of the thousands of sketches that have been a vital part of his practice.

 

You can’t bomb a virus

In the early 1990s at the Design Museum café, mentally flitting from the coffee-machine’s slick Gaggia…
 
Call and response

Call and response

This hardback book is the catalogue for the 2022-2023 Letterform Archive exhibition of the same name…
 
Magic and logic

Magic and logic

How do you tell the story of the way graphic design actually gets done? Two books…
 
In your own time

In your own time

There are some designers who create a body of work that is ahead of its time…
 
Enter by the exit level

Enter by the exit level

The latest instalment in Unit Editions’ ongoing series of designer monographs, Ed Fella: A Life in…
 
The joy of logos

The joy of logos

Designed and edited by Jens Müller, Logo Beginnings (Taschen, £60) is a well researched and beautifully…
 
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