Review: Graphic design
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.
Public art for public art’s sake
Scott King’s Public Art blends fact and fiction, satire and speculation in a critique of…
Hippie shake-up
What do Victor Moscoso’s psychedelic music posters, Harley Davidson’s Captain America chopper, the film Easy…