Review: Reviews
Consequent to the last detail
Looking at the kitchen mixers, hi-fi equipment and other products that Dieter Rams (b. 1932)…
The words of the prophets
Subway Art by photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant (Thames & Hudson, 1984) changed my…
The impact of Vorticism
Is it a sign of the growing acceptance of graphic design as a legitimate subject…
Red rags to the male chauvinist bulls
It is nearly 40 years since feminist hecklers reduced the comedian Bob Hope to silence…
Density, magic, genius and loss
Chris Ware’s comic strip was originally published in Chicago’s alternative New City paper and Ware’s…
Testament to tenacity
Hitler knew that without the Soviet Union threatening his flank, he could march on Eastern…
Toast modern
‘Typography is more a craft than an art – the graphic designer using type will…
Jump-cut collage
‘Roman Cieslewicz’, at London’s Royal College of Art features more than 150 items by the…
No way to treat a woman (designer)
A couple of years ago I wrote a series of essays whose working title was…
Famous for fifteen megabytes
In digital culture, nothing is ever perfect or finished. Glitch art and design celebrates the…