Review
The Catalogue As Exhibition
An inescapable fact about exhibiting books is that the essential ingredient of a book –…
Paleolithic pretensions
The hyperbole of this book’s introduction leads to an anticipation that can only be followed…
Andre’s mug: inspiring prank, global brand… or a one-hit wonder?
The hard-sell intro to Supply and Demand will, no doubt, have many digging into their…
The painful vision of Eugene Richards
While many forms of photography are enjoying a popularity like never before – be it…
Fuse's envelope comes unstuck
The suffix ’94 seems to suggest that the organisers of the Fuse conference expect to…
Typonauts, start your quest here
So Type Navigator, curated by Jan Middendorp and the Barcelona-based studio TwoPoints.Net (which, with Victionary…
Less made bigger
An exhibition of product design presents its curators with a challenge – showing objects on…
A visual map from A to Z
This book is the clearest introduction I’ve read to the story of how the alphabet…
Chronicles Of Design Past And Present
For more than twenty years Philip B. Meggs’s A History of Graphic Design, the first…
Designers with a life to match
I was cautious about the Eames show at the Design Museum – it seemed to…