Review
Making sense of a complex ideal
Simplification is an ideal we think we aspire to, whether we are talking about the…
Unpicking the design process
How do things in the design world actually get done? All too often the process by…
Tints and tones at the dawn of film
Legend has it that audiences for the Lumière brothers’ film The Arrival of a Train at…
Riding the concrete
Arriving like a solid slab of Brutalism, Long Live Southbank is a celebration of 40…
A message for modernity
In the late 1950s I had tea in London with László Moholy-Nagy’s former secretary…
The museum man
This confidently displayed show draws a line in the sand. It secures the De La Warr…
Poland’s graphic pioneers
Publications attempting a comprehensive overview of a country’s graphic design…
Tightly cropped critique
The subtitle of James Clough’s generously illustrated Signs of Italy: Outdoor…
Scissor action
John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weapon (David King and Ernst Volland, Tate…
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…