Review
What a wind-up! Four decades of problems and ‘style’
British Design & Art Direction – D&AD – is 40 years old and, like many…
A fraternity of trifles
With Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan upending expectations of the comic book form (and winning the…
An Italian in Zurich
Concrete art was a resolutely European art form (or, to be more specific, a Swiss-German…
LA logo attack
An entirely troubling aspect of debates about product placement (an egregious and underhand marketing practice…
Black gold
If there can be such a thing as a revolutionary coffee table book, Freedom Rhythm…
Towards a theory of everything design
Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field has the potential to be a popular academic…
Dust that never sleeps
Artist and writer Rachel Lichtenstein is best known for her book (and personal quest), Rodinsky’s…
Poetry of colour
There are two types of primary colours: additive and subtractive. The subtractive primaries (CMYK) are…
The digital reality of ‘emotional products’
Cover Art By follows on from the Sampler books as a valuable snapshot of current music design, but this time the content is more arcane …
Know what I mean?
Here’s a question for you. Given that it took us an awfully long time to…