Review
Baffling recollections
The pieces overlap, bleed off the edges, and generally defy comprehension … future historians may have the skill to decode it, but I did not.
Hands-on design and digital angst at the AIGA
This year’s AIGA conference had no theme other than ‘Design’, set in capitals against a twinkling sea of words.
The cultured sensibility of Cipe Pineles
Say it Sea-pea Pin-ell-ess. Cipe Pineles is credited with being America’s first influential female art director, and many stories could be woven around her multifarious names alone.
A talent that linked Modernism with life
Graphic design is a formless discipline. Functioning at the nexus point of so many traditions…
Political imagery re-examined
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…
Peak practice: beautiful Swiss books
As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…
Writing that lets down the letters
This project is a collaboration between 26 writers (from the professional writers’ association 26) and 2…
The eye of the curator
Exhibitions of graphic design are difficult. Posters do OK: they are the paintings of graphic design. But how about brochures, books, magazines and the like?
A new understanding of spaces
There are many good reasons why the names of Aldus Manutius (1450-1515) and Francesco Griffo (1450-1518)…
The end of Swiss graphics
Edited and conceived by the Lausanne-based experimental group Happypets, Pathfinder: A Way Through Swiss Graphix showcases…