Review: Visual Culture
Industrialised folk art
Alexander Girard ‘brought together what the modern had once separated: craftsmanship…
Living in the present
You want inspiration? Buy this book! It is as simple as that. Cleverly exploring a…
Activism follows anger
How do you channel anger into effective activism? This question remains urgent in an…
Design culture with constraints
Until recently, everyday commercial graphic design from East Germany was largely…
Automonography
Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as his wife…
The museum man
This confidently displayed show draws a line in the sand. It secures the De La Warr…
Tightly cropped critique
The subtitle of James Clough’s generously illustrated Signs of Italy: Outdoor…
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…
Fighting back with pictures
This is the third book which Liz McQuiston has written on graphic protest in the past…
Dreaming in Colors
In the ‘about’ section on the Colors website, you can see a sepia-tone photograph of…