Review: Graphic design
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…
History is made of the typical
Faced no doubt by a plethora of daunting decisions – who to include, which countries…
Losing its flavour
The ultimate in cheesy designer excess, packaged in a giant trading card wrapper, the first…
Art without its bitter history
I have a problem with Stalin’s face. He looked exactly like my cat. Exactly. This…
The cultured sensibility of Cipe Pineles
Cipe Pineles? Say it Sea-pea Pin-ell-ess; she’s credited with being America’s first influential female art…
New languages and noisy texts
Increasingly sophisticated methods of communication mean that the appropriateness of conventional forms of reading and…
The boy’s book of Pentagram
Pentagram are masters of self-promotion. ‘Books win friends,’ says Theo Crosby, ‘and buying friendship is…