Review
Design’s ugly truths
I have a shelf full of books preaching sermons clearly addressed towards the choir of…
A single-minded art director
A stone’s throw from the building in Cologne where Twen, Germany’s Zeitgeist magazine…
More than just a gridnik
Wim Crouwel: Modernist is the disingenuously bald title of a richly textured portrait…
Eventure playground
Boooook is the first publication to give a retrospective overview of the life and…
Notes from the American North-West
With a notebook and pencil poking out of the top pocket of his denim work jacket and…
Book of the mag of the moment
IL is the monthly supplement of the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. Since…
The ‘bookness’ of books
Hundreds of books about books have been published during the past century. A complete…
Industrialised folk art
Alexander Girard ‘brought together what the modern had once separated: craftsmanship…
Activism follows anger
How do you channel anger into effective activism? This question remains urgent in an…
Design culture with constraints
Until recently, everyday commercial graphic design from East Germany was largely…