Review: Graphic design
In your own time
There are some designers who create a body of work that is ahead of its time…
Magic and logic
How do you tell the story of the way graphic design actually gets done? Two books…
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
Designed and edited by Jens Müller, Logo Beginnings (Taschen, £60) is a well researched and beautifully…
Enter by the exit level
The latest instalment in Unit Editions’ ongoing series of designer monographs, Ed Fella: A Life in…
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
For those (like myself), whose design education revolved around white male role models and Western-centric design canons, the idea of inclusivity … [EXTRACT]
A ground-breaking survey
As educators of visual communication in the Arab world, we are all too often guilty of…
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 … [EXTRACT]
Japan in the fast lane
Tokyo 1964 Official Poster (No 3) Butterfly Swimmer designed by Kamekura Yūsaku. Courtesy of Prince Chichibu…