Review: Graphic design
The joy of logos
Designed and edited by Jens Müller, Logo Beginnings (Taschen, £60) is a well researched and beautifully…
Waiting at the intersection
Designers are often fascinated by a visual practice in which the maker enjoys an enviable autonomy usually unavailable to themselves.
Sci-fi high
I have not enjoyed a novel as much as Rian Hughes’s XX: A Novel, Graphic for some time …
Love letter to the future
The book’s position is stated in the title; it looks at design in relation to sexism, ableism and racism …
A ground-breaking survey
As educators of visual communication in the Arab world, we are all too often guilty of…
A curatorial homecoming
‘As a bird, forever in flight, forever searching for a place to come to rest’ was novelist Arnold Bennett’s description of his friend Edward McKnight Kauffer …
Japan in the fast lane
Tokyo 1964 Official Poster (No 3) Butterfly Swimmer designed by Kamekura Yūsaku. Courtesy of Prince Chichibu…
Pictoglyphic time travel
If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s…
Drawn from the capital
London can be a hard city to love, but David Gentleman always finds good reasons, which…
Max’s life is all mapped out
It is Max’s story of artistic struggle, hard work and self-belief [and] the emergence of graphic design as a discipline