Review
Endangered species
Piet Gerards is a craftsman. You can’t fail to notice this from the moment you…
Maira to the max
The illustrative art of Maira Kalman (see Reputations, Eye 47) has a special place in…
Erotic fantasies of a proto-Goth
If you like Roland Topor, the mid-twentieth-century French Surrealist illustrator and visual commentator, you’ll love…
Penguin in pictures
The Penguin Collectors’ Society is an owners club for people who worship at the shrine…
Mighty pen
Political cartoons are rarely covered in graphic design histories. The reason may have something to…
Recalling the Vignelli experience
‘In the early 1950s,’ begins Massimo Vignelli in the first chapter of this visual monograph…
Fading away before the issues
This £400 one-day symposium aimed to instigate ‘an overdue overhaul of the very principles of…
The chemistry that created a winning Swiss formula
Where did the ‘Swiss style’ come from? The book Corporate Diversity answers the question: it…
The elegant simplicity of torn paper
There is an elegant simplicity about this combined book and DVD on the Dutch designer…
Sixties Soul Sister
Books on graphic design predictably seem to be polarised into two categories: the well conceived…