Review
Type space
Supergraphics (Unit Editions, £25 + p&p, only available from uniteditions.com) is a 320-page softback about…
What makes designers tick?
Among design associations, the Alliance Graphique International (AGI, founded in 1952) is a special case…
Joyously tasteless art direction
Allow me to get something off my chest. Of the two jobs I once most…
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…