Review: Illustration

 
Seaside splendour

Seaside splendour

Eclectic, yet streamlined by design. It is perhaps unsurprising that Art Deco is associated with…
 
Many players on the Olympic stage

Many players on the Olympic stage

Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
 
Captain litho

Captain litho

Barnett Freedman (1901-56) was an artist / designer from a Jewish immigrant family who grasped…
 
Max’s life is all mapped out

Max’s life is all mapped out

This book is about far more than Leslie MacDonald Gill (better known as Max) and can…
 
Drawn from the capital

Drawn from the capital

London can be a hard city to love, but David Gentleman always finds good reasons, which…
 
Pictoglyphic time travel

Pictoglyphic time travel

If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s…
 
File under undefined

File under undefined

Edward Gorey (1925-2000) spent most of his life trying to remain uncategorised and undefined. Despite…
 
The glyphic and the vedutic

The glyphic and the vedutic

D. B. Dowd’s Stick Figures is a self-consciously polemical book that invites argument.

 
Paranoia in the void

Paranoia in the void

The selection of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina for the Man Booker longlist – the first time…
 
Signs of the times

Signs of the times

Every few years or so, a choice handful of illustrator / designers make a splash…
 
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