Review: Typography
The unsung stencil master
W. A. Dwiggins (1880-1956), the US designer best known for his typefaces Metro, Electra and…
Automonography
Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as…
A message for modernity
In the late 1950s I had tea in London with László Moholy-Nagy’s former secretary, surrounded…
The museum man
This confidently displayed show draws a line in the sand. It secures the De La…
Tightly cropped critique
The subtitle of James Clough’s generously illustrated Signs of Italy: Outdoor Lettering Up and Down…
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…
Unpredictable Swiss design
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, created in 1875, was a pioneer institution in collecting graphic…
Ring-bound to rule them all
Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines (Unit Editions, £75) follows Unit Editions’ Manuals 1, 201…
Anecdotage
GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years and Beyond, which reminisces over the past half-century of the graphic design…
Elegantly nerdish
Cuneiform (the name means ‘wedge-shaped’) was, as far as these things can be determined, the…