Review
Sensational now
Depending on your expectations, ‘Decode’ at the V&A could leave you feeling full of wonder…
A life in parallel columns
Adrian Frutiger (Switzerland, b. 1928) is one of the most important type designers of the…
The fine line between art, life and illustration
Saul Steinberg is the only artist that has reduced me to tears on the Underground…
End of history? Graphic design hasn’t started
The New Views symposium elicited two distinct perspectives on graphic design history, raising questions about…
Revolutionary material in the flesh
Glasgow’s Hunterian Gallery is home to a collection of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s portraits, yet…
Abbott Miller in the driving seat
A new phase for the visual culture magazine 2wice begins with this paean to the…
1057
In the Traffic Signs Regulations of 1982, code 1057 refers to the road marking for…
The theatre that Swarte built
On April 30 1995, the Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte was miserably tossing around on his…
Nothing like the real thing
Went to the conference, visited the exhibition, read the books but didn’t buy the T-shirt…
A very English tradition
If graphic design history can be read as a family tree, Britain has long played…