Review
Manual transmissions
Will Burtin was one of the pioneers of twentieth-century American graphic design, but he strode…
Taking a scalpel to the warmongers
For the politically engaged, Peter Kennard’s photomontages have always been an inspiration. Not only are…
Agents of change convene in Berlin
With an attendance figure approaching 900, Fuse ’95 was certainly a popular event. Typographic conferences…
Networks map a complex world
VisualComplexity.com, founded by Manuel Lima in 2005, is a repository of experimental visual mapping of…
When all the dials were set to ‘lurid’
‘The past,’ as L.P. Hartley opened The Go-Between in 1953, ‘is a foreign country: they…
Bulletins of The Serving Library #1
Following on from where Dot Dot Dot left off, Bulletins of The Serving Library is…
He has ways of making you read
Few novels have made use of graphic design for background or context, let alone made…
Nostalgia to tingle the spine
Seven Hundred Penguins (Penguin, £20) is exactly what it says it is: 700 utterly random…
A talent that linked Modernism with life
Graphic design is a formless discipline. Functioning at the nexus point of so many traditions…
Space is not the place
They used to say that the geeks would inherit the earth. Somehow it doesn’t look…