Review
Going off brand
Jason Grant and Oliver Vodeb’s uncompromising handbook of theory and action ends slyly with a…
Graphic friction
This new book oozes friction. It has been produced to be enjoyed as a visual experience beyond a mere taxonomy of work.
Bad but good but …
‘Wave: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts’ is a collection of ‘graphic arts’ with no typography. Tanaami…
Hockney asks the scientific question: ‘How?’
‘The Great Wall’, four-page gatefold from Secret Knowledge. After all the rhetoric expended upon new collaborations…
Read this space
Catherine Griffiths: Solo in [ ] Space by Zhihua Duan with Catherine Griffiths is ostensibly the…
Fontstand 2022
It was a Dutch train strike, rather than Covid-19, that threatened to disrupt Fontstand’s in-real-life event…
Ramp up the key strokes
Keith Armstrong (1950-2017) aka ‘ruhuman’, earned a reputation for his typewriter art while still in his teens.
Another world is possible
Design’s unsettled relationship to capitalism is nothing new. From the ‘First Things First’ (see Eye…
Subterranean looks back
Between the humour, history and typography, this memoir is a lot of fun, and a useful document of time, place and person.
Let the system do the work
Lorenz explains the advantages of a grid – but recognises its limitations … The book is full of helpful and instructional lists …