Review: Reviews
Delights at the end of the Mersey tunnel
Little known outside the northwest of England, Steve Hardstaff can correctly be described as ‘designer-in-chief…
Under Anger’s arcane spell
Artistic innovation often originates at the margins among mavericks and outcasts. Kenneth Anger (b 1927)…
What a wind-up! Four decades of problems and ‘style’
British Design & Art Direction – D&AD – is 40 years old and, like many…
An Italian in Zurich
Concrete art was a resolutely European art form (or, to be more specific, a Swiss-German…
LA logo attack
An entirely troubling aspect of debates about product placement (an egregious and underhand marketing practice…
Black gold
If there can be such a thing as a revolutionary coffee table book, Freedom Rhythm…
Towards a theory of everything design
Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field has the potential to be a popular academic…
Poetry of colour
There are two types of primary colours: additive and subtractive. The subtractive primaries (CMYK) are…
The digital reality of ‘emotional products’
Cover Art By follows on from the Sampler books as a valuable snapshot of current music design, but this time the content is more arcane …
Not exactly kid's stuff
As children’s books go, both of the above represent the ambitious end of the market…