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Cage recast as eye candy
American composer John Cage was a prankster, a gameshow champion and a creator of graphic…
He put his stamp on Dutch culture
R. D. E. ‘Ootje’ Oxenaar (b. 1929) was a key figure in the modernisation of…
Art without its bitter history
I have a problem with Stalin’s face. He looked exactly like my cat. Exactly. This…
Soft-edged memoir
Duncan Fallowell’s ‘memoir for misfits’ How to disappear (Ditto Press, £14.99) is possibly as interesting…
Picture hunter gatherers
The modern malaise is to over-complicate. In her chatty foreword to The Graphic Eye, Natalia…
Networks map a complex world
VisualComplexity.com, founded by Manuel Lima in 2005, is a repository of experimental visual mapping of…
When all the dials were set to ‘lurid’
‘The past,’ as L.P. Hartley opened The Go-Between in 1953, ‘is a foreign country: they…
Bulletins of The Serving Library #1
Following on from where Dot Dot Dot left off, Bulletins of The Serving Library is…
A botanical garden of graphics
Regular Graphic Design Today provides a thorough overview of the basic interests and styles of…
The ranged left years
As we leave the certainties of the last few decades behind (stable social and economic…