Review: Book design
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…
Industrialised folk art
Alexander Girard ‘brought together what the modern had once separated: craftsmanship…
The ‘bookness’ of books
Hundreds of books about books have been published during the past century. A complete…
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…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is…
Russian Avant-Garde Books
For anyone interested in the history of the book, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 by…
High thoughts on a self-effacing art
‘To begin with, let us enumerate what is repulsive and therefore wrong.’ Thus opens an…