Review: Graphic design
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…
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…
Glaser’s genial self-portrait
I know I’m not alone when I say that Milton Glaser was the first graphic…