Review: Posters

Print in the city

Print in the city

The posters chosen display the effects of scale, sparkle and speed applied as a dramatic backdrop to the expansion of the city …

From exotic wonderland to self-determination

Leaving through this compendium of 900 posters, many produced in Africa but some in Europe, I…

Prints of Persia: Islamic World Posters

Organised by the Iranian Academy of Art in association with the Saba Artistic and Cultural Center, this new event provided an opportunity to see artists not only from Iran, but also from Syria, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, the Sudan and elsewhere, whose work is rarely shown at poster biennials.

Japanese design in Zürich [EXTRACT]

Japanese design in Zürich [EXTRACT]

Japan and Switzerland both enjoy rich graphic traditions, and both cultures draw their vigour from craftsmanship, clarity and simplicity.

Poster man and boy

Poster man and boy

Paul Rennie’s Tom Eckersley: A Mid-century Modern Master is a fascinating account of Eckersley’s prolific output …

Captain litho

Captain litho

Barnett Freedman (1901-56) was an artist / designer from a Jewish immigrant family who grasped…
Minard’s retirement plans

Minard’s retirement plans

Sandra Rendgen’s The Minard System re-contextualises in book form for the first time the entire…
Action to the word

Action to the word

Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch Posters 1960–1996, is an…
Body of work

Body of work

In our digital age, when every image is available and mutable, when pornography is commonplace…
Guts and gutters

Guts and gutters

The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that ‘you can’t…
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