Review: Graphic design

 
A small ‘M’ modern master

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

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

Violently opposed to war

Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results, as Signs…
 
Menacing identities

Menacing identities

This brooding black hardback, which looks like a CIA manual, is a worldwide survey of…
 
A cornucopia of Indian design

A cornucopia of Indian design

This anthology of interviews with Indian graphic designers gained exposure in the UK earlier this…
 
Surfing a 1960s California wave

Surfing a 1960s California wave

Having spent a week alternately prancing and slogging through John Van Hamersveld’s career-capping monograph, I…
 
Cold war modern machine music

Cold war modern machine music

Music humanises technology: from the thump of a hunter’s bone to the whine of a…
 
From logo to holo

From logo to holo

This is the first book that has taken me ten minutes just to look at…
 
Duo-tome

Duo-tome

In 2013, the overblown, completist pretensions of a career-defining monograph seem, well, a bit old-fashioned…
 
More than a gender

More than a gender

‘I never set out to be the only woman blah-blah,’ insists Paula Scher, the first…
 
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