Review: Graphic Design
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or…
Unravelling pages
Warren Lehrer is best known for French Fries (Visual Studies Workshop Press / EarSay…
We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark
In the early 1990s I produced a number of facsimile editions of publications of the…
A small ‘M’ modern master
The history of graphic design has many gaps and omissions, whether through shifting…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results…
Menacing identities
This brooding black hardback, which looks like a CIA manual, is a worldwide survey of…
A cornucopia of Indian design
This anthology of interviews with Indian graphic designers gained exposure in the UK…
Surfing a 1960s California wave
Having spent a week alternately prancing and slogging through John Van Hamersveld’s…
Cold war modern machine music
Music humanises technology: from the thump of a hunter’s bone to the whine of a…