Review: Reviews
More than a gender
‘I never set out to be the only woman blah-blah,’ insists Paula Scher, the first…
Design history disciplined
What kind of discipline is graphic design history? Catherine de Smet provided one answer in…
Beck and beyond
Harry Beck’s underground map must be the most celebrated, discussed and fetishised instance of information…
Glorious transit
Let’s face it, graphic design is short of real drama. There are no good design…
An enquiring mind
Ken Garland (b. 1929) is something of an enigma in British graphic design. Not fitting…
Guerrilla warfare, semiotic style
The political philosophy of anarchism has attracted some extraordinary and perhaps unlikely British adherents. They…
Hardcore fluff
Debates about education seem these days to have been reduced almost entirely to questions of…
Snap!
In late 1943, Edwin Land went on holiday with his family to Santa Fe. Land…
Source code for a design revolution
Processing, an open-source programming language and environment for creating visualisations, animation and interactive artwork, was…
Man of letters
For much of the past decade, illustrator Tom Gauld has been a regular contributor to…