Review
Not exactly kid's stuff
As children’s books go, both of the above represent the ambitious end of the market…
Telling it like it is
The long-running Typo Berlin conference brings together a thousand delegates under very expansive, and rather…
Enforced focus
Visual Editions, the company founded by Anna Gerber and Britt Iversen, has quickly established a…
How to write a Modernist’s obituary
History is continually being made, but that does not mean all history will be written. What…
Instant Tarkovsky
Film directors who began their careers as stills photographers are not as common as might…
Isometric illustrator
Hipgnosis. Dark Side of the Moon. Hardie’s iconic collaborations with Storm Thorgerson and co. for…
Crumb’s graphic sweepings
Crumb has been the comics’ deity for me since the early 1960s when I saw…
Pink is the new black(letter)
Since 1998, when Peter Bain and I staged the exhibition ‘Blackletter: Type and National Identity’…
Golden years
Published in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and amid the increasing hype of…
Good intentions writ large
The three alternatives recommended by the authors of Conscientious Objectives are to ‘work for ethical…