Review: Graphic design
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…
Inspired information
In her 2014 book Graphesis Johanna Drucker describes information visualisations as ‘intellectual Trojan horses’ –…
Swiss style: the prequel
It all started with a letter that Dorothea Hofmann sat down to write to Philip…
A 2D man comes to life
This gutsy new book by Paul Sahre is a candid narrative about a graphic designer – a two-dimensional practitioner.