Review
What’s this history for?
The suggestion, by a European interloper, that there was some rancour in the ostensibly anodyne title…
The sound of the sleeves
At the press view for the V&A’s “The Art of Selling Songs”, visitors were regaled by…
A grid for all occasions
Lella and Massimo Vignelli design by the grid, but they also live and work by…
The craft of digital type
Metal setting is practised today by only a handful of specialists, but it continues to provide…
Design from the margins
It was probably close to midnight when Gert Dumbar, a key figure in the “America-Holland: Overseas…
When an ad becomes art
Admen have long yearned to be taken seriously as artists. Visual artists have long helped to…
Images and information
Seven years have passed since Edward Tufte wrote The Visual Display of Quantitative Information published by…
Typography’s new priests
‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…
Multimedia machine
At first sight the NeXT computer shows every sign of being a second generation Macintosh. It…
America: the lost decades
Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History is a challenging book but it made a…