Review: Illustration
The crew with no name
This ambitious exhibition throws light on a circle of artists and designers grouped loosely around…
Public art for public art’s sake
Scott King’s Public Art blends fact and fiction, satire and speculation in a critique of…
Pictures made of books
Few children’s picturebooks are quite like this. A Child of Books (Walker Books, £12.99) is…
Soothing deadlines
Christoph Niemann’s Sunday Sketching (Abrams, $40, £25) includes a few ‘greatest hits’ from his time…
Book of the mag of the moment
IL is the monthly supplement of the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. Since…
Big up!
Here’s the book we have been waiting for – a mighty tome celebrating the work…
Industrialised folk art
Alexander Girard ‘brought together what the modern had once separated: craftsmanship and industry, folk art…
Activism follows anger
How do you channel anger into effective activism? This question remains urgent in an era…
Design culture with constraints
Until recently, everyday commercial graphic design from East Germany was largely absent from the cultural…
Nested narratives
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Abrams, $35, £21.99) – the book of the film – comes…