Review: Typography
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
Cinematic storyteller
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is an enthralling visual document of King’s work from his student experiments to the groundbreaking visual histories of his later years …
Faenza mon amour
Faenza is a pleasant little medieval Italian town with a name meaning ‘glazed earthenware’ (as…
Swiss fresh air
This modest book is the first to cover the long career of Swiss graphic designer…
An old-fashioned alien invasion
They Live: A Visual and Cultural Awakening is an exploration of John Carpenter’s classic political…
Easy reading
Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…
Rules of engagement
Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…
Anglo-Saxon latitudes
The London transport maps designed by MacDonald (Max) Gill can be regarded as sitting in…
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a book was…
Don’t judge a book by its title
Never judge a book by its title. If I had done that, I would never…