Review: Graphic design
The eye of the curator
Exhibitions of graphic design are difficult. Posters do OK: they are the paintings of graphic design. But how about brochures, books, magazines and the like?
The book as dark, musty gallery
Graphic designer Carin Goldberg’s first book is a catalogue. Though at first glance it is reminiscent…
Lift and Separate
Before she left her position as curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center, New York…
High thoughts on a self-effacing art
‘To begin with, let us enumerate what is repulsive and therefore wrong.’ Thus opens an…
The desktop repro-house
Asking a graphic designer if he recommends desktop repro is like asking a general practitioner if he recommends coffee-table surgery …
Typography’s new priests
‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…