Review: Graphic design
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…
Revolutionary material in the flesh
This travelling exhibition – organised by the Hayward Gallery, London – features posters, flyers, books and film from all the leading strands of twentieth-century Modernism.
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…
Is anybody out there reading?
One of the features of Octavo magazine that made it so appealing to anyone who encountered the first issue … was the finite nature of the enterprise.