Review: Graphic design

 
In your own time

In your own time

There are some designers who create a body of work that is ahead of its time…
 
Magic and logic

Magic and logic

How do you tell the story of the way graphic design actually gets done? Two books…
 
Waiting at the intersection

Waiting at the intersection

Designers are often fascinated by a visual practice in which the maker enjoys an enviable autonomy usually unavailable to themselves.

 
The joy of logos

The joy of logos

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

Sci-fi high

I have not enjoyed a novel as much as Rian Hughes’s XX: A Novel, Graphic for some time …

 
Love letter to the future

Love letter to the future

The book’s position is stated in the title; it looks at design in relation to sexism, ableism and racism …

 
A ground-breaking survey

A ground-breaking survey

As educators of visual communication in the Arab world, we are all too often guilty of…
 
A curatorial homecoming

A curatorial homecoming

‘As a bird, forever in flight, forever searching for a place to come to rest’ was novelist Arnold Bennett’s description of his friend Edward McKnight Kauffer …

 
Japan in the fast lane

Japan in the fast lane

Tokyo 1964 Official Poster (No 3) Butterfly Swimmer designed by Kamekura Yūsaku. Courtesy of Prince Chichibu…
 
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