Review: Reviews
A life in grafix
Here’s a fantastic, heavy, extraordinary 374-page book whose ten chapters chart the designer Ian ‘Swifty’…
Street haunting
Ghost signs have long been popular as landmarks, historical devices, ornaments and visual research; adding…
Animals fight back
This book of 115 black-and-white woodcut illustrations and few words carries an affecting, forceful message…
Non-woolly mammoth
There are few publications that can boast the depth of resource, aspiration and expertise as…
Museums on display
The academic study of design history is one that has only emerged within the past…
Paradise debunked
The consensus among designers is that the middle of the last century was the golden…
Pictures made of books
Few children’s picturebooks are quite like this. A Child of Books (Walker Books, £12.99) is…
Grignani
‘Franco Grignani: Art as Design 1950-1990’ at London’s Estorick Collection (5 July – 10 September…
From magic lanterns to virtual reality
In her preface, Maureen Furniss tells it how it was: ‘In twenty years of teaching…
In praise of infrastructure: BR’s corporate identity manual is resurrected
The British Rail Corporate Identity Manual was a labour of love for Wallace Henning, a…