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Maira to the max
The illustrative art of Maira Kalman (see Reputations, Eye 47) has a special place in…
Penguin in pictures
The Penguin Collectors’ Society is an owners club for people who worship at the shrine…
Recalling the Vignelli experience
‘In the early 1950s,’ begins Massimo Vignelli in the first chapter of this visual monograph…
The chemistry that created a winning Swiss formula
Where did the ‘Swiss style’ come from? The book Corporate Diversity answers the question: it…
Twentieth-century Renaissance man
My generation grew up in awe of a handful of American designers. Pre-eminent among them…
Meet me in Provence
If photography had a Mecca, the annual Rencontres d’Arles in the south of France would…
Shouting from the shelves
Faber and Faber, the independent British publisher founded in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber (there was…
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…