Review: Graphic design
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…
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…