Review: Graphic 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
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…
Hardcore fluff
Debates about education seem these days to have been reduced almost entirely to questions of…
Source code for a design revolution
Processing, an open-source programming language and environment for creating visualisations, animation and interactive artwork, was…