Review: Visual culture
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…
Fighting back with pictures
This is the third book which Liz McQuiston has written on graphic protest in the…
Dreaming in Colors
In the ‘about’ section on the Colors website, you can see a sepia-tone photograph of…
Nested narratives
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Abrams, $35, £21.99) – the book of the film – comes…
True confessions
Two recent exhibitions in London shone a light into some less explored corners of the…
Ring-bound to rule them all
Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines (Unit Editions, £75) follows Unit Editions’ Manuals 1, 201…
Concrete canvas
When a Banksy original turns up (usually prised off a wall) and sells for £300,000…
Elegantly nerdish
Cuneiform (the name means ‘wedge-shaped’) was, as far as these things can be determined, the…
Master of the minimal
When did logos begin? The wordmarks and symbols of Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s, Mercedes-Benz, Bayer, Shell and…