Review: Reviews
Waste not
For many years Vaughan Oliver was the in-house designer for the 4AD record label, creating…
Action to the word
Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch Posters 1960–1996, is an…
Rules of engagement
Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd’s Stick Figures is a self-consciously polemical book that invites argument.
An old-fashioned alien invasion
Oldham’s project has been more than two years in the making, and They Live’s enduring impact on visual culture makes it a good place to start …
The heart and soul of Harlem
The black-and-white Esquire photo of 57 jazz musicians (plus a few local children) posed in…
Attitudinal angle
We live in an ‘extraordinarily turbulent, often perilous time when we face changes of unprecedented…
Shock and oral history
Ian Birch’s Uncovered: Revolutionary Magazine Covers is an entertaining browse through some of the most…
Paranoia in the void
The selection of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina for the Man Booker longlist – the first time…
Gender and amnesia
Women Design features the work of 25 female designers and architects from the Bauhaus to…