Review: Illustration
Anglo-Saxon latitudes
The London transport maps designed by MacDonald (Max) Gill can be regarded as sitting in…
Body of work
In our digital age, when every image is available and mutable, when pornography is commonplace…
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a book was…
The art of small moments
To call Chris Ware a genius seems obvious, banal, almost. So much praise has been…
Party people
‘Made In North Korea’ (House of Illustration, London, 26 March–13 May 2018) is a window…
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…
Inspired information
In her 2014 book Graphesis Johanna Drucker describes information visualisations as ‘intellectual Trojan horses’ –…
A sharp eye for Brazilian design
The short title of this exhibition – ‘Brasil Hoje’ [Brazil Today] – gives an idea…
Market forces
Lucinda Rogers is a British reportage illustrator whose career has become intertwined with activism, working…