Review
No way to treat a woman (designer)
A couple of years ago I wrote a series of essays whose working title was…
Not dead, just sleeping
There are 300 or so death masks in the collection of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society…
Famous for fifteen megabytes
In digital culture, nothing is ever perfect or finished. Glitch art and design celebrates the…
Pattern recognition
Unless you have had your head stuck in a white cube since the flip of…
Talkin’ ’bout font generations
Do you guys always talk this much about yourself in presentations?’ asked Vladimir, a Russian…
Frank’s wild years
Had Robert Frank never opened another shutter after 1956, his reputation would be secure on…
El Lissitzky's divine parable
Had Gadya is the song that is sung at the end of an intimate family…
The book design complex
The annual one-day conference at St Bride Library in Bride Lane (off Fleet Street) has…
Big ideas and giant turkeys
The culture of ‘album cover design’ often runs in a kind of parallel universe to…
Cool as a Muji candle in the snow
Quiet, patient and smart, Kenya Hara sets his bold ideas in a cool landscape, like…