Review: Reviews
Unpredictable Swiss design
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, created in 1875, was a pioneer institution in collecting graphic…
True confessions
Two recent exhibitions in London shone a light into some less explored corners of the…
Ring-bound to rule them all
Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines (Unit Editions, £75) follows Unit Editions’ Manuals 1, 201…
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…