Review
Let the system do the work
Martin Lorenz’s Flexible Visual Systems: The Design Manual for Contemporary Visual Identities is a proposal for…
The purpose is what it does
What happens to a design after it has entered the world? What new meanings are generated…
A celebration of sans
If, by setting out its content on its cover, a book could be said to wear…
Attack of the book jackets
Tupigrafia A-Z is the book of the Brazilian magazine Tupigrafia published by Claudio Rocha and Tony…
The narrator is present
Kenneth FitzGerald has been writing about design since 1996, when his first commissioned piece – a…
Magic and logic
How do you tell the story of the way graphic design actually gets done? Two books…
The spaces between
Christopher Sleboda, Kathleen Sleboda
April Greiman’s photography book WhiteSpace conjures the ephemeral into a tangible form, fixing digital pixels alongside…
In your own time
There are some designers who create a body of work that is ahead of its time…
Fading into significance
Faded advertising signs are more widespread than we think. Ghost Signs: A London Story explores the…
Enter by the exit level
The latest instalment in Unit Editions’ ongoing series of designer monographs, Ed Fella: A Life in…