Review
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)…
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…