Review
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…
Predation and consumption: adrift in ecstacity
Architects with ambition rarely restrict their interests to only single buildings, or buildings in a…
Drink me
From its cork-finished covers to its wine-bottle proportions, Eduardo del Fraile’s Wine Labels looks and…
The mystery of frozen locomotion
This exhibition explores the static, two-dimensional representation of movement. In the catalogue (and in his…
All the flat boys
Michelle Cotton’s book, produced to accompany a Cubitt Gallery touring exhibition (see ‘From bombs to…