Review
Bible of babel
The 2012 European Design Awards, the winners of which were announced in Helsinki on 2…
A tale of two diagrams
Frank Pick, the London Underground system’s legendary manager, believed good design was good for business.He…
Gentle giant
Tom Gauld’s Goliath tells the story of David and Goliath from the latter’s point of…
Hergé’s adventures in the world of graphics
I frequently have lunch at a Belgian café in New York called Le Petite Abeille (the…
Bart and Lisa go infografista
Best known for drawing foreigners from far and wide to run with the bulls through…
The Illustrated Con-man
Along with the ubiquitous offers of herbal 'Viagra', pump and dump stock tips, and bogus…
A grasp of political design
‘Political Design after the Cold War’ is probably a rubbish name for a book. However…
The layers of a floating image
There is something very satisfying about opening a new software product from Adobe. From the…
Encounter with the Netherlands
Dutch design is on the move. In the US, in New York and Boston alone…
Resonating image-makers
The graphic scores of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (1919-1994) date from the extravagant and exuberant period of…