Review: Reviews
Attitudinal angle
We live in an ‘extraordinarily turbulent, often perilous time when we face changes of unprecedented…
Shock and oral history
Ian Birch’s Uncovered: Revolutionary Magazine Covers is an entertaining browse through some of the most…
Paranoia in the void
The selection of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina for the Man Booker longlist – the first time…
Gender and amnesia
Women Design features the work of 25 female designers and architects from the Bauhaus to…
Signs of the times
Every few years or so, a choice handful of illustrator / designers make a splash…
Anglo-Saxon latitudes
The London transport maps designed by MacDonald (Max) Gill can be regarded as sitting in…
Body of work
In our digital age, when every image is available and mutable, when pornography is commonplace…
Hardcore history
More than 40 years after punk happened, the phenomenon is still being fêted as a…
Instant gratification
The Polaroid Project is a well produced, large-format hardback, with informative essays from expert contributors…
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a book was…