Review: Reviews
Anecdotage
GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years and Beyond, which reminisces over the past half-century of the graphic design…
History of pictures worth reading
Benoît Buquet, a teacher of the theory and history of contemporary art, sees no reason…
Living, breathing picturebooks
Starting from 1910 and ending in 2014, this large-format book shows illustrations from 100 picturebooks…
A Dutch battle that still rattles
Fiery debates on the ethical, political and cultural ramifications of graphic design are rare. Yet…
Love songs for Piano
In her photographs and brief text for Office Romance (Aperture, $29.95, £19.95, designed by Jon…
Concrete canvas
When a Banksy original turns up (usually prised off a wall) and sells for £300,000…
Elegantly nerdish
Cuneiform (the name means ‘wedge-shaped’) was, as far as these things can be determined, the…
A Roman legacy
The Eternal Letter is the first in a series of books dedicated to letterforms to…
Master of the minimal
When did logos begin? The wordmarks and symbols of Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s, Mercedes-Benz, Bayer, Shell and…
California is a state of mind
Rendered, on the cover of Metropolis’s American edition, in iridescent foil and set against a…