Review: Graphic design
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a book was…
Don’t judge a book by its title
Never judge a book by its title. If I had done that, I would never…
Party people
‘Made In North Korea’ (House of Illustration, London, 26 March–13 May 2018) is a window…
Relics of a vanished world
‘It’s all about nostalgia now,’ writes Malcolm Garrett in his introduction to Letraset: The DIY…
No fixed style
Among British independent record companies, Mute Records, founded in 1978 by ‘accident’, has never enjoyed…
Japanese traces
This winter, the Tokyo exhibition ‘Fragments of Graphism: An Alternative History of Graphic Design in…
A social process
Despite a long and eclectic career that variously spans design, printing, teaching, history and writing…
Health redrawn
Graphic design plays a part in almost every area of our daily lives. But can…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that ‘you can’t…
A sharp eye for Brazilian design
The short title of this exhibition – ‘Brasil Hoje’ [Brazil Today] – gives an idea…