Review: Reviews
The ranged left years
As we leave the certainties of the last few decades behind (stable social and economic…
Pipe dreams
Push Pin founders Seymour Chwast (pronounced ‘kwast’) and Milton Glaser instigated a graphic design revolution…
Spectacle and knowledge
This elegant mini-brick of a book, designed by Irma Boom, reproduces a selection of 70…
All the juice that fits, in bite-size bits
Shortly after it began trading, Innocent received a letter from the Trading Standards Office enquiring…
Design’s virtual Woodstock
I was spoilt for choice. The speakers had all been outstanding, the line-up stellar, the…
The font now arriving at Platform 1
Stories in the glossier design books usually have neat endings: the project is completed successfully…
Bauhaus
‘Arguing is part of the Bauhaus,’ says Philipp Oswalt, director of the current Dessau institution…
Glaser’s genial self-portrait
I know I’m not alone when I say that Milton Glaser was the first graphic…
Iron curtain Vegas
In the mind’s eye, the Eastern Europe of the cold war is painted with a…
Boy’s Own inventions
American Heritage, a hardcover quarterly, was my favourite magazine in the 960s for its beautifully…