Review: Reviews
Comic sans the grown-ups
There are two names responsible for bringing comics ‘out of the trash and into a…
The farewell tour syndrome
Earlier this year I was researching past issues of Emigre magazine for an exhibition project…
Spaniards’ works
When I was researching my Deco España: Graphic Design Between the Wars (Chronicle Books) in…
Always in flux
The first major museum-based American graphic design exhibition in fifteen years, ‘Graphic Design: Now in…
Playing to their special strengths
The Tower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa and Mickey Mouse of the postcard world is…
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…