Review
The crew with no name
This ambitious exhibition throws light on a circle of artists and designers grouped loosely around…
A 2D man comes to life
This gutsy new book by Paul Sahre is a candid narrative about a graphic designer – a two-dimensional practitioner.
Public art for public art’s sake
Scott King’s Public Art blends fact and fiction, satire and speculation in a critique of…
Bruce Rogers in the twentieth century
The Centaur types are arguably the greatest achievement of the Indiana-born typographer and book designer…
A treat for Tschichold aficionados
These two books will delight aficionados of Jan Tschichold, the German typographer who embodied the…
Bauhäuslers at rest and play
When we think of the photographic experiments of the 1920s, what immediately comes to mind…
Hippie shake-up
What do Victor Moscoso’s psychedelic music posters, Harley Davidson’s Captain America chopper, the film Easy…
Stuck in neutral
The scope of Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland is expansive. The editors have set…
A life in grafix
Here’s a fantastic, heavy, extraordinary 374-page book whose ten chapters chart the designer Ian ‘Swifty’…
Street haunting
Ghost signs have long been popular as landmarks, historical devices, ornaments and visual research; adding…