Review
Monsters mashed
It takes nothing from the most enjoyable or most informative conversations you’ve ever had to…
Industrial Palimpsest
This book contains a sampling of Dutch designer Karl Martens’ formal experiments in printmaking, colour…
Off the shelf
Jonny Trunk is obsessed by the childhood memory of a cornflake box seen on family…
Consequences for the comic artist
Nelson is, according to Rob Davis’s introduction, ‘a testament to what comics truly are’. But…
Gnomic utterances
There is nothing new about artist’s books composed from pieced together, ironically juxtaposed snippets of…
Product design: secular religion or useful hobby?
Encouraged, no doubt, by the well deserved success of his first documentary, Helvetica (2007; see…
The Swastika as symbol
Littered with phrases such as ‘hypertrophied singularity’, and drawing deeply on semantic theory and philosophy…
Found Master
I first came across N. P. de Koo while researching my own Dutch Modern (Chronicle…
Iran’s tantalising visual revolution
This survey of new Iranian design work is exciting and frustrating in roughly equal measure…
Music designers come clean for students
A collection of interviews with 23 music-associated designers. The questions are pointed and clear; the…