Review
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…