Review
High thoughts on a self-effacing art
‘To begin with, let us enumerate what is repulsive and therefore wrong.’ Thus opens an…
The desktop repro-house
Asking a graphic designer if he recommends desktop repro is like asking a general practitioner…
David Stone Martin
Jazz Graphics by Manek Daver (Graphic-Sha, £27.50) is an encyclopaedic compendium of album covers designed…
Word, image and emotion
Graphic design history is a notoriously tricky subject spanning, as it inevitably has to, a…
The end of an art form?
Is the poster a valid communication medium or a historical object that graphic designers refuse…
Dutch Best Books
During the 1950s and 1960s, the Dutch Best Book Designs review was perhaps the public’s…
A graphiste comes home
Though small, this significant exhibition by the French designer, Philippe Apeloig, whose work is at…
A grid for all occasions
Lella and Massimo Vignelli design by the grid, but they also live and work by…
Typography’s new priests
‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…