Review: Book design
An old-fashioned alien invasion
They Live: A Visual and Cultural Awakening is an exploration of John Carpenter’s…
Adventures in the book trade
Printing R-Evolution’ has been an unexpected public success, confounding expectations…
Hard-working hooligans
Scan the pages of recent graphic design history, and its coverage of the…
Easy reading
Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…
File under undefined
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) spent most of his life trying to remain uncategorised and…
Rules of engagement
Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…
Body of work
In our digital age, when every image is available and mutable, when pornography is…
Paranoia in the void
The selection of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina for the Man Booker longlist – the first time a…
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…