Review: Graphic design
Anglo-Saxon latitudes
The London transport maps designed by MacDonald (Max) Gill can be regarded as sitting…
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a…
Don’t judge a book by its title
Never judge a book by its title. If I had done that, I would never have opened Never…
Party people
‘Made In North Korea’ (House of Illustration, London, 26 March–13 May 2018) is a…
Relics of a vanished world
‘It’s all about nostalgia now,’ writes Malcolm Garrett in his introduction to…
No fixed style
Among British independent record companies, Mute Records, founded in 1978 by…
Japanese traces
This winter, the Tokyo exhibition ‘Fragments of Graphism: An Alternative History of…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that…
A social process
Despite a long and eclectic career that variously spans design, printing, teaching…
Health redrawn
Graphic design plays a part in almost every area of our daily lives. But can it…