Review
Comic sans the grown-ups
There are two names responsible for bringing comics ‘out of the trash and into a…
The farewell tour syndrome
Earlier this year I was researching past issues of Emigre magazine for an exhibition project…
Spaniards’ works
When I was researching my Deco España: Graphic Design Between the Wars (Chronicle Books) in…
London Pride
The capital’s infrastructure may be decrepit, but London Transport can still celebrate the history of…
Handy hardback memories
Generations of children have grown up with Ladybird books. Between 1940 and 1980, 646 hardback…
Is it a comic? No, it’s history
Sequels are rarely a good idea – unless they happen to be The Godfather. Reinventing…
Books received in Eye 39
Bartlett Book of Ideas Edited by Peter Cook Bartlett School of Architexture, UCL £15 A…
Political punch
The refreshing thing about David Huxley’s heavily illustrated history of British underground comics is the…
Another look at British identity
The Bus is part a then-and-now portrait portfolio, part autobiography, part essay on documentary photography…
Always in flux
The first major museum-based American graphic design exhibition in fifteen years, ‘Graphic Design: Now in…