Review
Duck the issue
Surveying a decade of electoral shocks, coups d’état, demonstrations and democratic…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that…
Health redrawn
Graphic design plays a part in almost every area of our daily lives. But can it…
Elusive characters
On the surface, Marcel’s Letters is a fascinating story. Once you dig a little…
A weighty guide to Latin typefaces
More than ever, typography is an incessant talking (and writing) point. Its history…
Imperfect beauty
This book exists solely because its author Esther K. Smith considers Specimens of…
Books on books
The London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA), founded in 2012 by artists Simon Goode and…
A sharp eye for Brazilian design
The short title of this exhibition – ‘Brasil Hoje’ [Brazil Today] – gives an idea of…
Inspired information
In her 2014 book Graphesis Johanna Drucker describes information visualisations as…
Artists’ letters
Despite the importance of words and letters in the history of art, few critics – and…