Review: Reviews
Big idea, small footprint
New York’s Mmuseumm is not a freak show but rather a show of freaky, poignant…
Adventures in the book trade
Printing R-Evolution’ has been an unexpected public success, confounding expectations that the incunabula period of…
Hard-working hooligans
Scan the pages of recent graphic design history, and its coverage of the rule-breaking mantras…
Information and emancipation
This book brings to light an audacious moment in the long career of civil rights…
Easy reading
Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…
File under undefined
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) spent most of his life trying to remain uncategorised and undefined. Despite…
A century of no, No, NO
The exhibition framed the New York’s powerful social history of women’s activism through the lens and medium of graphic design and visual art.
Waste not
For many years Vaughan Oliver was the in-house designer for the 4AD record label, creating…
Action to the word
Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch Posters 1960–1996, is an…
Rules of engagement
Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…