Review: Reviews
Facing up to unreality
In an essay in the catalogue accompanying this large-scale exhibition, curator William A. Ewing argues…
A sign of moral degeneration?
Is the swastika so tainted by the horrors of Nazism that it cannot, should not…
Another self-indulgent design monograph
A wall of Stefan Sagmeister’s work / live apartment in New York bears the handwritten…
Revealing images
Bookshop shelves groan with giant compendiums of illustration, heavy on image, light on information or…
Nuffin’ like a Puffin
Phil Baines’s Penguin by Design: A Cover Story (2005) was, even at a glance, a…
Biography of a special case
Robin Kinross’s book about Anthony Froshaug has been anticipated in typographic circles for many years…
Pieced together in Ambleside
I’m sure that most designers will know about some aspect of Kurt Schwitters’ work, probably an…
Political imagery re-examined
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…
Peak practice: beautiful Swiss books
As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…
Smash hits and sound gardens
Exhibitions of ‘sound art’ run the risk of providing little visual interest and too much overlapping…