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On being well read
In this shifting digital world, countless websites, blogs and social networks provide instant information on…
Letters from Italy
Italian public buildings of the 1930s tend to be of cyclopean proportions and the Milan…
Pages from the library of libraries
Graphic design, devoted as it is to re-framing text and image, thrives as an object…
Square pegs
The postwar reconstruction era of 1950s in the Netherlands is usually viewed as a dreary…
Shadows over Poland
The Polish Poster School of the 1950s and 60s casts a long shadow over graphic…
Giant monkeys in Sagmeister’s soul
Philadelphia ICA, never an institution to shy away from re-contextualising culture and art, has a…
Skewed perceptions
Two books from the same publisher. Both are hardbacks, both monographs, both protagonists work mainly…
Relentless information
Riding the persistent wave of popular interest in data visualisation, Taschen’s Information Graphics is a…
Fear of the black
Last winter, as queues formed outside Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs for retrospectives on graphic…
Psychedelic tract
The era of psychedelic art – from the mid 1960s to the very early 70s…