Review
Best or just beautiful?
Every contest has its criteria, and this catalogue for The Best German Book Design 200…
Mixed doubles
Apprenticed first as a hoodlum graffiti artist, then as a calligrapher and graphic designer, Niels…
Running on empty
The work of artists such as Ed Ruscha, who base their art on language, raises…
Code and image
‘Decode: Digital Design Sensations’ promises to be a blockbuster for the new decade. Curated by…
The myth-maker of LA
The first time I visited Los Angeles I bought a book called Twentysix Abandoned Gasoline…
Books received
365 AIGA Year in Design 22Edited by Andrea CodringtonAIGA, This year’s chronicle of North American graphics…
Strategies for telling truths
The sharpest books on design come from small independent publishers, such as Hyphen Press in…
New languages and noisy texts
Increasingly sophisticated methods of communication mean that the appropriateness of conventional forms of reading and…
The boy’s book of Pentagram
Pentagram are masters of self-promotion. ‘Books win friends,’ says Theo Crosby, ‘and buying friendship is…
Is anybody out there reading?
One of the features of Octavo magazine that made it so appealing to anyone who…