Review
Print’s not dead: it just smells funny
Kristina Nickel’s ‘handbook for media designers’ comes shrink-wrapped with a glowing quote from Erik Spiekermann…
You can judge by the cover
Designer Andrew Howard’s catalogue of his exhibition Gateways: An International Exhibition of Book Covers, Portugal…
Welcome to the nuclear terror dome
A complex, compressed, highly suggestive assemblage, this exhibition deftly lays out the strange tale of…
What a genius
At one time, Barney Bubbles seemed like the Zelig of graphic design, the man who…
Sex and pulp and rock’n’roll
In 1952, US Congressman Ezekiel C. Gathings singled out pocket-sized, mass-market paperbacks as being for…
Sailing down a mighty river of type
Over the past five centuries the Netherlands has become an extremely densely populated country and…
Essential on every level
The title of Stephen Shore’s The Nature of Photographs promises to peel its subject to…
Stereotyping for pictures, power and profit
Stereotyping was the name given by the French printer Fermin Didot in 1794 to his…
A geezer with blunt scissors
In London, not far from where I live, there is a man who stands on…
The complete graphic designer
As a senior designer and member of Total Design management, Ben Bos enjoyed the same…