Review: Graphic design
Stone love
Since the early 1960s Michael Twyman has contributed to the establishment and improvement of standards…
Book of revelations
The uncontroversial premise of Multiple Signatures is that design is a collaborative act, and so…
Thirty years before the masthead
This book is a lavishly illustrated summary of the three decades when Swiss typography journal…
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or planning to, from what…
Unravelling pages
Warren Lehrer is best known for French Fries (Visual Studies Workshop Press / EarSay Books…
We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark
In the early 1990s I produced a number of facsimile editions of publications of the…
A small ‘M’ modern master
The history of graphic design has many gaps and omissions, whether through shifting tastes, technology…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is beautifully…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results, as Signs…
Menacing identities
This brooding black hardback, which looks like a CIA manual, is a worldwide survey of…