Review
Pictures of the unspeakable
Five photographers capture moments from the first weeks following the September 11 attacks in New York…
Poster boy for a lost Seattle
This book has a sad epilogue, though one that comes as no surprise after everything you…
The human face of Soviet space
Russians, as my mother-in-law never tires of telling me, have poetical souls. Space for them could…
Dreams wrapped in blue
Bundled into a carefully stitched J-cloth bag, the second edition of this journal contrasts with D&AD’s…
The sound of inbetween-ness
Despite the success of certain collaborations between sight and sound (think Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone)…
Moving letters are not enough
I always thought the joke seemed like an excellent metaphor for design. Most of the time…
He put his stamp on Dutch culture
R. D. E. ‘Ootje’ Oxenaar (b. 1929) was a key figure in the modernisation of…
Stretching the credibility of science
Sometimes an exhibition so successfully crystallises a change in the way designers think about what…
A lifetime of brush-script problem-solving
There is a photograph of Ashley Havinden (1903-73), taken for Country Life sometime late in…
Art without its bitter history
I have a problem with Stalin’s face. He looked exactly like my cat. Exactly. This…