Review
File under undefined
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) spent most of his life trying to remain uncategorised and undefined. Despite…
A century of no, No, NO
An air of discontent has been fomenting in the US since the turmoil of the…
Waste not
For many years Vaughan Oliver was the in-house designer for the 4AD record label, creating…
Action to the word
Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch Posters 1960–1996, is an…
Rules of engagement
Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd’s Stick Figures is a self-consciously polemical book that invites argument.
An old-fashioned alien invasion
Oldham’s project has been more than two years in the making, and They Live’s enduring impact on visual culture makes it a good place to start …
The heart and soul of Harlem
The black-and-white Esquire photo of 57 jazz musicians (plus a few local children) posed in…
More than skin deep
Many books about visual communication contain scant critique or objective evaluation. Most tend to be…
Attitudinal angle
We live in an ‘extraordinarily turbulent, often perilous time when we face changes of unprecedented…