Review
Multicultural markings
Designers and typographers visiting Middle Eastern and Gulf states are often overwhelmed by the sheer…
Tear it down, build it up
In March 1966 the critic Reyner Banham wrote: ‘Architecture, staid queen-mother of the arts, is…
Rip and Recycle
Many regard climate change as a problem but there are precious few who conquer their…
The Monograph as Atlas
In his slim but tactile volume I Swear I Use No Art At All: 1…
Mini-museums, little magazines
There has been considerable recent interest in ‘little magazines’ from the 1960s to the 80s…
India meets US for a graphic King
Here is an oddity. A graphic novel about the American civil rights activist Martin Luther…
From dump to designer bookshelf
It seems antithetical to the DIY fanzine ethos for a book about the subject to…
Fanfare for the common man
This book is neither biography nor visual monograph but an entertaining compilation that throws additional…
A passion for graphic expression
A passage in Born Modern recounts how the 39-year-old graphic designer Alvin Lustig invited his…
The visualisation of complex data
St Bride Library has been undergoing something of a renaissance in recent years. It is…