Review
Who’s zooming whom?
Almost twenty years ago, when I first saw Hungarian illustrator Istvan Banyai’s portfolio, he was…
The font now arriving at Platform 1
Stories in the glossier design books usually have neat endings: the project is completed successfully…
Bauhaus
‘Arguing is part of the Bauhaus,’ says Philipp Oswalt, director of the current Dessau institution…
Ceci n’est pas une exposition
Constraints, Charles Eames was once quoted as saying, are the factors that shape design more…
‘Folk art’ without the quote marks
When I first met Jeremy Deller eleven years ago it was a match made in…
Ken Garland’s life in politics
“In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.” With…
Glaser's genial self-portrait
I know I’m not alone when I say that Milton Glaser was the first graphic…
Iron curtain Vegas
In the mind’s eye, the Eastern Europe of the cold war is painted with a…
Boy’s Own inventions
American Heritage, a hardcover quarterly, was my favourite magazine in the 960s for its beautifully…
Stripped for action
To my knowledge, this is the first cross-media anthology of gay comic art and illustration…