Review
Laughter, the best medicine
My eyes were opened to humour in design in the early 1970s when I went to…
A century of magazine
The magazine is the key print medium of the twentieth century. It occupies that void…
Rhetoric of the square
Blank Page, a series of six ‘books’ or portfolios, each of which finds coherence in…
Club-runner graphics
In the mid to late 1980s we would be out every night at some club…
US designers with attitude
Twelve-hundred graphic designers from over 30 regional chapters of the American Institute of Graphic Arts…
The desktop repro-house
Asking a graphic designer if he recommends desktop repro is like asking a general practitioner if he recommends coffee-table surgery …
Franklin the myth-maker
The 37th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition, held in the gallery at the International Typeface…
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…