Review: Graphic design
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…
Stuck in neutral
The scope of Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland is expansive. The editors have set…
Paradise debunked
The consensus among designers is that the middle of the last century was the golden…
In praise of infrastructure: BR’s corporate identity manual is resurrected
The British Rail Corporate Identity Manual was a labour of love for Wallace Henning, a…
Living in the present
You want inspiration? Buy this book! It is as simple as that. Cleverly exploring a…
More than just a gridnik
Wim Crouwel: Modernist is the disingenuously bald title of a richly textured portrait of the…
Design’s ugly truths
I have a shelf full of books preaching sermons clearly addressed towards the choir of…
A single-minded art director
A stone’s throw from the building in Cologne where Twen, Germany’s Zeitgeist magazine of the…