Review: Graphic design
Deadpan Dutch design
Dutch design, say the authors, is not something confined to The Netherlands; it is more of a spirit or an approach with global reach and global implications.
A graphic haven in the heart of Berlin
Presentations … covered a panoramic, inspirational collection of work and ranged in delivery from humble, mumbly, apologetic and stern, to the cocky, passionate, witty and evangelical.
The look of young Japan
The title of this doorstop-sized tome says a lot about Japanese design all by itself. JPG…
Japan’s seismic changes
Much of the work shown in this impressive historical overview has rarely been published in…
Modernism in the slow lane
In the years before the Second World War, Britain was slow to embrace the most…
Pocket polymath
Decades before it became almost de rigueur to present yourself as a practitioner – and…
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
This hardback book is the catalogue for the 2022-2023 Letterform Archive exhibition of the same name…
Magic and logic
How do you tell the story of the way graphic design actually gets done? Two books…