Review
Type tales told for ordinary folk
It was hard to avoid Just My Type in the weeks before its publication in…
Nuffin’ like a Puffin
Phil Baines’s Penguin by Design: A Cover Story (2005) was, even at a glance, a…
Biography of a special case
Robin Kinross’s book about Anthony Froshaug has been anticipated in typographic circles for many years…
Pieced together in Ambleside
I’m sure that most designers will know about some aspect of Kurt Schwitters’ work, probably an…
An abundance of directions
Edo Smitshuijzen has an impressive track record as a designer of major identity and signage projects…
The man on every French bookshelf
The French designer known as Massin (he removed his first name, Robert, in the early days…
From the typographic to the visual
This book’s title is a librarian’s nightmare. It differs by only three letters from that of…
Down-to-earth Son Of A Windmill-builder
‘Typo-photo’ was a term coined by Moholy-Nagy in 1925 to designate the striking montage of…
The wrong browsers
It gives me no pleasure to say that this is a truly dreadful book that…
The birth of Swiss graphic design
It was in an attempt to clarify the meaning of language as arising from its use…