Review
The sweet green grass of code
Form+Code is an interesting addition to Princeton Architectural Press’s ‘Design Briefs’, a series of books…
When the pen was mighty
These two volumes (Custom Lettering of the 40s & 50s, Custom Lettering of the 60s…
Theatre of cartography
Judith Schalansky subtitles her Atlas of Remote Islands (Particular Books / Penguin, £25) ‘Fifty Islands…
The pop artist as graphic designer
Stars and stripes, hearts and targets – if Peter Blake’s name is not the first…
Mapping the city of the future
The atlas is a difficult genre to take on, given the twentieth century’s many doubts…
Tall and tan and young and cryptic
The cover of Chico Buarque de Hollanda, one of 139 such LP covers collected in…
Club-wielding poster boy
‘American Badass’, ‘Totally Live, Totally Nude’, and ‘Follow Your Damn Bliss’ are some of the…
Formal richness for the tablet age
Open the Pages interface on an iPad and look at the menu bars: the tab…
Scrubbing out the archives
Over the past century philosophers and intellectual historians have repeatedly called attention to the important…
Print for the rag brands
Graphic Design for Fashion features inspiring work for small to mid-size fashion labels, such as…