Review
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…
Fruitful lines of graphic type analysis
In late 2002, a group of subscribers to the ATypI mailing list conspired to discuss…
Political imagery re-examined
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…
Peak practice: beautiful Swiss books
As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…
Writing that lets down the letters
This project is a collaboration between 26 writers (from the professional writers’ association 26) and 2…