Review
Franklin the myth-maker
The 37th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition, held in the gallery at the International Typeface…
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…
Reasons to recycle
It is an uncomfortable fact, but most of what graphic designers help to create ends up…
Goudy, the good ol’ boy
Frederic Goudy (1865-1947) was a long-lived and prolific American type designer, famous in his own lifetime…
Themes and variations
The magazine Spirale was published from Bern in nine numbers, including one double issue, between 195…