Review
The joy of logos
Designed and edited by Jens Müller, Logo Beginnings (Taschen, £60) is a well researched and beautifully…
Waiting at the intersection
Designers are often fascinated by a visual practice in which the maker enjoys an enviable autonomy usually unavailable to themselves.
Unfinished narratives
In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of books and projects that…
Type’s new faces
Weighing in at a little under two kilos and running to a whopping 832 pages…
Printer poet
The Last Cuckoo is a film about the life and work of letterpress printer and activist Dennis Gould
In the heat and light of the day
A woman walks up to a building’s flat rooftop in Bobo-Dioulasso (above), the second-largest city in…
Sci-fi high
I have not enjoyed a novel as much as Rian Hughes’s XX: A Novel, Graphic for some time …
Pop art before it was ‘Art’
Several chapters into this captivating how-to book, Joby Carter jokes about ‘carrying on the fairground tradition …
Shaded tints, a view of US racism
The Design of Race arrives at an inflection point in American society. Awareness of racial, socio-economic and class disparities has been at the forefront of national politics …