Review: Reviews
Prism of teaching
Paul Elliman once spoke of a hypothetical online teaching environment that would embrace digital resources: ‘dictionaries, search engines, mailing lists, chat-rooms …
Cool lists for dark days
Gilles Peterson is known for his unfeasibly large record collection and an unstoppable enthusiasm for Black…
Love letter to the future
The book’s position is stated in the title; it looks at design in relation to sexism, ableism and racism …
Crisis by design
Editors Tony Fry and Adam Nocek present Design in Crisis as part of an ‘ongoing conversation that aims to challenge how designers engage with the planetary crises …
A curatorial homecoming
‘As a bird, forever in flight, forever searching for a place to come to rest’ was novelist Arnold Bennett’s description of his friend Edward McKnight Kauffer …
From gothic to roman, almost
Most books on the history of type design follow a familiar trajectory. They either provide a…
Japan in the fast lane
Tokyo 1964 Official Poster (No 3) Butterfly Swimmer designed by Kamekura Yūsaku. Courtesy of Prince Chichibu…
Pictoglyphic time travel
If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s…
Drawn from the capital
London can be a hard city to love, but David Gentleman always finds good reasons, which…
Max’s life is all mapped out
This book is about far more than Leslie MacDonald Gill (better known as Max) and can…