Review
Political punch
The refreshing thing about David Huxley’s heavily illustrated history of British underground comics is the…
Another look at British identity
The Bus is part a then-and-now portrait portfolio, part autobiography, part essay on documentary photography…
Always in flux
The first major museum-based American graphic design exhibition in fifteen years, ‘Graphic Design: Now in…
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…