Review: Typography
Pictoglyphic time travel
If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s…
Read and destroy
Art and design pedagogy is generally agreed today on the imperative for educators to facilitate independent…
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
Signs of street life
At a time when many of us know our location all too well, having been…
Gender imbalance
Within the design publishing landscape, type-focused titles abound, yet type designed by women remains proportionally under-represented…
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…
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…