Review
Playing to their special strengths
The Tower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa and Mickey Mouse of the postcard world is…
Facing up to unreality
In an essay in the catalogue accompanying this large-scale exhibition, curator William A. Ewing argues…
A sign of moral degeneration?
Is the swastika so tainted by the horrors of Nazism that it cannot, should not…
Another self-indulgent design monograph
A wall of Stefan Sagmeister’s work / live apartment in New York bears the handwritten…
Revealing images
Bookshop shelves groan with giant compendiums of illustration, heavy on image, light on information or…
The New Typography
The statement in the publicity for the one-day event organised by Kingston University promised much…
Ware comes back with a darker narrative
After a four-year hiatus spent repackaging earlier work for a mainstream audience, Chris Ware finally…
Type tales told for ordinary folk
It was hard to avoid Just My Type in the weeks before its publication in…
Nuffin’ like a Puffin
Phil Baines’s Penguin by Design: A Cover Story (2005) was, even at a glance, a…
Biography of a special case
Robin Kinross’s book about Anthony Froshaug has been anticipated in typographic circles for many years…