Review: Illustration
Prolific polymath
Pretty Pictures (Thames & Hudson, £42, $75) covers the astonishing body of work that the…
Freestyling text and image
As a second-year undergraduate student at Reading in the early 1990s, I was shown the…
Unpacked baggage
Is any contemporary illustrator a household name today? Not in the same way that Norman…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results, as Signs…
Cute cultural tourism
Hello Kitty and Pokemon seem to have taken over the world in recent decades. But…
Studies in black, brown and beige
Handsome may be the word to describe this book, conceived by German illustrator Robert Nippoldt…
Man of letters
For much of the past decade, illustrator Tom Gauld has been a regular contributor to…
The theatre that Swarte built
On April 30 1995, the Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte was miserably tossing around on his…
Losing its flavour
The ultimate in cheesy designer excess, packaged in a giant trading card wrapper, the first…
Glaser’s genial self-portrait
I know I’m not alone when I say that Milton Glaser was the first graphic…