Review: Illustration
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…
True confessions
Two recent exhibitions in London shone a light into some less explored corners of the…
Anecdotage
GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years and Beyond, which reminisces over the past half-century of the graphic design…
Living, breathing picturebooks
Starting from 1910 and ending in 2014, this large-format book shows illustrations from 100 picturebooks…
Learning from Ladybird
For any member of the generations who grew up with Ladybird Books, the mini-hardback format…
‘Typo’s guaranteed!’
Do you know of the calypso singer Mighty Sparrow? Or the jazz singer Slim Gaillard…
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and September 2014…