Review: Visual Culture
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…
Cute cultural tourism
Hello Kitty and Pokemon seem to have taken over the world in recent decades. But…
Menacing identities
This brooding black hardback, which looks like a CIA manual, is a worldwide survey of…
Cold war modern machine music
Music humanises technology: from the thump of a hunter’s bone to the whine of a…
If not for design …
Books about design aimed at a relatively broad audience that are historically…
Out of the shallows
This photograph of a deliriously colourful 1969 swimming pool designed by Verner…