Review: Posters
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…
Fighting back with pictures
This is the third book which Liz McQuiston has written on graphic protest in the…
A man of high purpose
Drawn from the magnificent archive of the artist’s family, this engaging centenary exhibition explores the…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results, as Signs…
Art without its bitter history
I have a problem with Stalin’s face. He looked exactly like my cat. Exactly. This…
Handmade graphics refuse to go quietly
Despite huge progressions made by technologies for graphics and printing, the handmade graphic refuses to go away
Political imagery re-examined
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…
The essence of graphic design?
Siegfried Odermatt has collected posters by Swiss designers since 1942. Sigi (as he likes to be…