Review
Design for the underground
Following his seminal 1969 article in the Penrose Annual, ‘The Design of the London Underground…
Spinning out of common sense
This is a slim, attractive volume, just the kind of thing to take on holiday…
A quiet little blockbuster
Amid the heavyweight competition, this 150mm square block charms through a directness of purpose and…
The stuff they like
The Fall 2000 issue of The Ganzfeld was a 152-page pocket book; the latest is…
Twentieth-century Renaissance man
My generation grew up in awe of a handful of American designers. Pre-eminent among them…
Meet me in Provence
If photography had a Mecca, the annual Rencontres d’Arles in the south of France would…
Shouting from the shelves
Faber and Faber, the independent British publisher founded in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber (there was…
The idea will not be found in a book
This slim book of 80 pages will take maybe one hour of your time. The…
No-frills chronicle of a publisher
Phil Baines’s scholarly book, jammed with more than 500 covers, is a straightforward, no-frills chronicle…
Consequent to the last detail
Looking at the kitchen mixers, hi-fi equipment and other products that Dieter Rams (b. 1932)…