Review

Books received

Children’s Book CoversBy Alan PowersMitchell Beazley £20 Designers in HandcuffsBy Pat Matson KnappHow Design Books, £19.9…

Mexican designers seek an identity

Gabriella Gomez-Mont

Ten guest speakers flew to Mexico from different parts of the world, spoke about ten different…

Fétis: form follows function

A glossy monograph of illustration and design by the fashionable French practitioner. In an interview conducted…

Audacious master of the painted word

Deborah Burnstone

Ed Ruscha’s retrospective at Oxford’s Museum of Modern Art was the first in the UK to…

A million stories in the naked city

Catherine Dixon

The Light Surgeons’ LDN-Redux, which premiered in São Paulo in July, is a 35-minute audiovisual…

Björk’s slow-drip app

John Warwicker

Any new medium attracts the inquisitive mind. If that mind is as idiosyncratic and fertile…

Seeds of digital romanticism

Mark Webster

Matt Pyke is a renowned English artist and designer who works at the forefront of…

Logos without words

Garech Stone

Despite the soft cover, this book by Angus Hyland and Steven Bateman is anything but…