Review: Reviews
Raw and radical
The ‘underground press’ died out more than 40 years ago. Yet it lives on, thanks…
Studies in black, brown and beige
Handsome may be the word to describe this book, conceived by German illustrator Robert Nippoldt…
Surfing a 1960s California wave
Having spent a week alternately prancing and slogging through John Van Hamersveld’s career-capping monograph, I…
Wordplay for a picture palace
In classical texts on the ‘art of memory’, the student is advised to visualise objects…
Cold war modern machine music
Music humanises technology: from the thump of a hunter’s bone to the whine of a…
If not for design …
Books about design aimed at a relatively broad audience that are historically informed and critically…
From logo to holo
This is the first book that has taken me ten minutes just to look at…
Duo-tome
In 2013, the overblown, completist pretensions of a career-defining monograph seem, well, a bit old-fashioned…
Letters on location
Many francophiles would say that there are more interesting, beautiful cities to visit in France…
Mr Beck’s uke map
Just over a hundred years ago the music business experienced its first major crisis. The…