Review
The ‘bookness’ of books
Hundreds of books about books have been published during the past century. A complete bibliographic…
Industrialised folk art
Alexander Girard ‘brought together what the modern had once separated: craftsmanship and industry, folk art…
Eventure playground
Boooook is the first publication to give a retrospective overview of the life and work…
Activism follows anger
How do you channel anger into effective activism? This question remains urgent in an era…
Design culture with constraints
Until recently, everyday commercial graphic design from East Germany was largely absent from the cultural…
‘Because, history’
Despite its name, Typo Berlin, founded in 1996, has never been solely dedicated to type…
The book of Michael
It is a pleasure to read a book that is honest, accessible and direct about…
Thesis & antithesis & synthesis (& EJ)
There are few high-profile ‘traditional’ graphic design studios whose members discuss their work in such…
The unsung stencil master
W. A. Dwiggins (1880-1956), the US designer best known for his typefaces Metro, Electra and…