Review: Typography
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…
A Roman legacy
The Eternal Letter is the first in a series of books dedicated to letterforms to…
A man of high purpose
Drawn from the magnificent archive of the artist’s family, this engaging centenary exhibition explores the…
Slip sliding into history
About halfway through this long and highly detailed study of the life and work of…
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and September 2014…
Prolific polymath
Pretty Pictures (Thames & Hudson, £42, $75) covers the astonishing body of work that the…
Stone love
Since the early 1960s Michael Twyman has contributed to the establishment and improvement of standards…
Thirty years before the masthead
This book is a lavishly illustrated summary of the three decades when Swiss typography journal…
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or planning to, from what…