Review: Visual Culture
Learning from Ladybird
For any member of the generations who grew up with Ladybird Books, the mini-hardback…
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and…
Book of revelations
The uncontroversial premise of Multiple Signatures is that design is a collaborative…
Freestyling text and image
As a second-year undergraduate student at Reading in the early 1990s, I was shown the…
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or…
Absent insights
By its title, L’Écartelage reveals its focus on Surrealism in the work of Pierre…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is…
Towering ambition
Audiovisual events that genuinely work are so rare that Brooklyn Babylon (Holland…
The future was Afro
Slightly larger than a 45rpm single and thick as a modest box-set, this book…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results…