Review
Cute cultural tourism
Hello Kitty and Pokemon seem to have taken over the world in recent decades. But…
Menacing identities
This brooding black hardback, which looks like a CIA manual, is a worldwide survey of…
A cornucopia of Indian design
This anthology of interviews with Indian graphic designers gained exposure in the UK earlier this…
Raw and radical
The ‘underground press’ died out more than 40 years ago. Yet it lives on, thanks…
Studies in black, brown and beige
Handsome may be the word to describe this book, conceived by German illustrator Robert Nippoldt…
Surfing a 1960s California wave
Having spent a week alternately prancing and slogging through John Van Hamersveld’s career-capping monograph, I…
Wordplay for a picture palace
In classical texts on the ‘art of memory’, the student is advised to visualise objects…
Cold war modern machine music
Music humanises technology: from the thump of a hunter’s bone to the whine of a…
If not for design …
Books about design aimed at a relatively broad audience that are historically informed and critically…
From logo to holo
This is the first book that has taken me ten minutes just to look at…