Review
Carve his name with pride
Michael Harvey, the British lettering artist and designer, has worked wholly within the ‘English lettering…
Intelligent design for scientists
Data is the currency of science. The days of butterflies pinned to a board are…
365 nuggets from glue-stained vets
More rules? Really? Surely we have enough design rules / principles / maxims now? Do…
Turn of the Screw
‘Sex sells!’ was a 1960s motto. Though not as popular as ‘Peace now’, ‘Make love…
Alphabetical jazz soup
The most ingenious editorial design element of Jazz Covers is its double spine: a trompe…
Every word in its place
Reading Richard Hollis’s writings, one can’t help wondering how the esteemed graphic designer, writer and…
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…