Review: Magazines
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that…
A single-minded art director
A stone’s throw from the building in Cologne where Twen, Germany’s Zeitgeist magazine…
Book of the mag of the moment
IL is the monthly supplement of the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. Since…
Scissor action
John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weapon (David King and Ernst Volland, Tate…
Dreaming in Colors
In the ‘about’ section on the Colors website, you can see a sepia-tone photograph of…
Thirty years before the masthead
This book is a lavishly illustrated summary of the three decades when Swiss…
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or…
Guerrilla warfare, semiotic style
The political philosophy of anarchism has attracted some extraordinary and perhaps…
Losing its flavour
The ultimate in cheesy designer excess, packaged in a giant trading card wrapper, the…