Review: Book design
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a…
No fixed style
Among British independent record companies, Mute Records, founded in 1978 by…
Books on books
The London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA), founded in 2012 by artists Simon Goode and…
In praise of infrastructure: BR’s corporate identity manual is resurrected
The British Rail Corporate Identity Manual was a labour of love for Wallace Henning…
More than just a gridnik
Wim Crouwel: Modernist is the disingenuously bald title of a richly textured portrait…
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…
Eventure playground
Boooook is the first publication to give a retrospective overview of the life and…
Automonography
Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as his wife…
Learning from Ladybird
For any member of the generations who grew up with Ladybird Books, the mini-hardback…