Review
A social process
Despite a long and eclectic career that variously spans design, printing, teaching, history and writing…
Health redrawn
Graphic design plays a part in almost every area of our daily lives. But can…
Elusive characters
On the surface, Marcel’s Letters is a fascinating story. Once you dig a little deeper…
A weighty guide to Latin typefaces
More than ever, typography is an incessant talking (and writing) point. Its history is a…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that ‘you can’t…
Imperfect beauty
This book exists solely because its author Esther K. Smith considers Specimens of Chromatic Wood…
Books on books
The London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA), founded in 2012 by artists Simon Goode and…
A sharp eye for Brazilian design
The short title of this exhibition – ‘Brasil Hoje’ [Brazil Today] – gives an idea…
Inspired information
In her 2014 book Graphesis Johanna Drucker describes information visualisations as ‘intellectual Trojan horses’ –…
Artists’ letters
Despite the importance of words and letters in the history of art, few critics –…