Review
A character actor in search of authorship
The twenty years of Chip Kidd’s career in book design have coincided with big changes…
Canyons of your mind
Julian Rothenstein founded the Redstone Press in 1986 to publish Drawing Book – drawings and…
Moving imagemakers: dig the new breed
The emerging generation of motion graphics designers, VJs and digital directors is well represented by…
You may not want to hear
Bruce Nauman’s work famously defies easy categorisation. So writers who attempt to interpret his oeuvre…
First green shoots of an Indian spring
What is ‘Indian’ design? This was the unofficial theme of September’s 2008 Design Yatra in…
Advertising’s second coming
This book provides a succinct overview of alternative advertising strategies that have become prominent in…
How hip-hop changed the way things look
I have to admit I’m not the greatest fan of Hip-Hop so it’s a bit…
The artist behind Norman Bates
The artist Edward Hopper was said to have been ecstatic when told that Alfred Hitchcock…
Art direction unknown
What makes a photo art? It helps if you encounter it in some sanctioned art-viewing…
Aicher’s Heroic Aspirations
When the German designer Otl Aicher died in 1991, a particular kind of graphic design…