Review: Visual Culture
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…
Fighting back with pictures
This is the third book which Liz McQuiston has written on graphic protest in the past…
Tightly cropped critique
The subtitle of James Clough’s generously illustrated Signs of Italy: Outdoor…
Dreaming in Colors
In the ‘about’ section on the Colors website, you can see a sepia-tone photograph of…
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…
Nested narratives
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Abrams, $35, £21.99) – the book of the film – comes in the…
True confessions
Two recent exhibitions in London shone a light into some less explored corners of the…
Ring-bound to rule them all
Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines (Unit Editions, £75) follows Unit Editions’…