Review: Reviews
Theory must be put to work
Dutch art and design academies, unlike their UK counterparts, can be relied on to produce quality…
Defending the reader’s rights
Fellow Readers attempts to correct the theoretical posture of designers who subscribe to notions borrowed from post-structuralism and deconstruction
Copyright will tear us apart
When the Association Typographique Internationale was founded in 1957, it was essentially a typesetting manufacturers’ organisation…
Democracy is in the details
This was a national conference, with straightforward and memorable presentations from Matt Groening, Milton Glaser, Sylvia Harris and Dave Eggers …
The look of young Japan
The title of this doorstop-sized tome says a lot about Japanese design all by itself. JPG…
Japan’s seismic changes
Much of the work shown in this impressive historical overview has rarely been published in the West …
Modernism in the slow lane
In the years before the Second World War, Britain was slow to embrace the most…
Pocket polymath
Decades before it became almost de rigueur to present yourself as a practitioner – and…
Getting into good trouble
While we doomscroll, Spiegelman is still the poster boy for consequential drawing, and he reminds us that enduring printed matter still matters …
Future casters
I am lucky enough to live a stone’s throw from London’s Estorick Collection in Canonbury…