Review
Photographs of food
Published and designed by the Swiss / American practice Coromandel Design, 01.2 Manger / Eat…
Oliver’s Posters
The latest music industry fly-poster spotted on the way to work used to be a…
Humanity And Publicity
This handsome and well illustrated monograph is the latest in a sequence of studies of…
Edward Wright’s Optimism On Display
Edward Wright (1912-88) was a designer, artist, writer and teacher. His work is incredibly diverse…
Quirks of branding
Shelf Life is a lovingly assembled hymn to branded goods that sound odd or just…
Face to face with the Afrikan written tradition
Contemporary graphic and typographic design histories are mostly America-centric or Euro-centric. Despite a few books…
A historical slant on design
In the introduction to their history of graphic design during the past 200 years, Paul…
Cage recast as eye candy
American composer John Cage was a prankster, a gameshow champion and a creator of graphic…
Protest minus the politics
The 1990s began ostensibly as the decade of ‘caring and sharing’, with politicians such as…
Experiments in movement
At the end of the nineteenth century, the onslaught of science, urban modernism and technological…