Review
Oliver’s Posters
The latest music industry fly-poster spotted on the way to work used to be a…
Humanity And Publicity
This handsome and well illustrated monograph is the latest in a sequence of studies of…
Edward Wright’s Optimism On Display
Edward Wright (1912-88) was a designer, artist, writer and teacher. His work is incredibly diverse…
Quirks of branding
Shelf Life is a lovingly assembled hymn to branded goods that sound odd or just…
Face to face with the Afrikan written tradition
Contemporary graphic and typographic design histories are mostly America-centric or Euro-centric. Despite a few books…
A historical slant on design
In the introduction to their history of graphic design during the past 200 years, Paul…
World of signs and pictures
The work of Wolfgang Weingart may to some mean simply the series of extraordinary Weltformat (905x…
Quick hits from cover to cover
Nothing goes down quite so well in the average magazine office as a new book about…
Type: Science and conscience
The debate of style over content is clearly not a new one in book publishing. In…