Review: Reviews
Thesis & antithesis & synthesis (& EJ)
There are few high-profile ‘traditional’ graphic design studios whose members discuss their work in such…
The unsung stencil master
W. A. Dwiggins (1880-1956), the US designer best known for his typefaces Metro, Electra and…
Automonography
Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as…
When the camera nearly always lies
The Tate Modern’s ‘Performing for the Camera’ began with Yves Klein’s famous Leap into the…
Making sense of a complex ideal
Simplification is an ideal we think we aspire to, whether we are talking about the…
Unpicking the design process
How do things in the design world actually get done? All too often the process…
Tints and tones at the dawn of film
Legend has it that audiences for the Lumière brothers’ film The Arrival of a Train…
Riding the concrete
Arriving like a solid slab of Brutalism, Long Live Southbank is a celebration of 4…
A message for modernity
In the late 1950s I had tea in London with László Moholy-Nagy’s former secretary, surrounded…
The museum man
This confidently displayed show draws a line in the sand. It secures the De La…