Review: Reviews
The mystery of frozen locomotion
This exhibition explores the static, two-dimensional representation of movement. In the catalogue (and in his…
All the flat boys
Michelle Cotton’s book, produced to accompany a Cubitt Gallery touring exhibition (see ‘From bombs to…
Culturing feedback on feedback culture
Blogs are easy to approach: you stumble on a link, read an article or two…
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…