Review
The words of the prophets
Subway Art by photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant (Thames & Hudson, 1984) changed my…
South African Pop Culture
… Liberally interpreted, Afro is a magazine. Eschewing the strict linear chronology of a bound…
Let’s not forget about culture
The TEDS conference, ‘information architect’ Richard Saul Wurman’s fifth technology/entertainment/design extravaganza, was a mixture of…
Instruments of radical change
Rodchenko, Lissitzy and Moholy-Nagy were founding fathers of modern graphic design. Art historians have assured…
A gap between screen and page
This is the book of the well received British TV series ‘Bridge’. The book is…
The impact of Vorticism
Is it a sign of the growing acceptance of graphic design as a legitimate subject…
Red rags to the male chauvinist bulls
It is nearly 40 years since feminist hecklers reduced the comedian Bob Hope to silence…
Glimpses of a graphic reality
Admit it. What graphic designers really want is to see work by other graphic designers…
After dark I'm a design critic
In the last decade, a body of graphic design criticism has begun to take shape…
Density, magic, genius and loss
Chris Ware’s comic strip was originally published in Chicago’s alternative New City paper and Ware’s…