Review: Graphic design
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…
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
Having spent a week alternately prancing and slogging through John Van Hamersveld’s career-capping monograph, I…
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
This is the first book that has taken me ten minutes just to look at…
Duo-tome
In 2013, the overblown, completist pretensions of a career-defining monograph seem, well, a bit old-fashioned…
More than a gender
‘I never set out to be the only woman blah-blah,’ insists Paula Scher, the first…
Design history disciplined
What kind of discipline is graphic design history? Catherine de Smet provided one answer in…
An enquiring mind
Ken Garland (b. 1929) is something of an enigma in British graphic design. Not fitting…