Review

 
Another self-indulgent design monograph

Another self-indulgent design monograph

John L. Walters

A wall of Stefan Sagmeister’s work / live apartment in New York bears the handwritten…
 
Revealing images

Revealing images

John L. Walters

Bookshop shelves groan with giant compendiums of illustration, heavy on image, light on information or…
 

The New Typography

Ian Noble

The statement in the publicity for the one-day event organised by Kingston University promised much…
 
Ware comes back with a darker narrative

Ware comes back with a darker narrative

David Thompson

After a four-year hiatus spent repackaging earlier work for a mainstream audience, Chris Ware finally…
 

Nuffin’ like a Puffin

Robert Hanks

Phil Baines’s Penguin by Design: A Cover Story (2005) was, even at a glance, a…
 

Type tales told for ordinary folk

Gerry Leonidas

It was hard to avoid Just My Type in the weeks before its publication in…
 
Biography of a special case

Biography of a special case

Rick Poynor

Robin Kinross’s book about Anthony Froshaug has been anticipated in typographic circles for many years…
 
Political imagery re-examined

Political imagery re-examined

Steven Heller

One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…
 

Peak practice: beautiful Swiss books

Kerry William Purcell

As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…
 
The book as dark, musty gallery

The book as dark, musty gallery

Daniel Nadel

Graphic designer Carin Goldberg’s first book is a catalogue. Though at first glance it is…
 
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