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31 December 2010

Double vision

The Stone Twins come clean about their obsessions with a sticker book

They may be celebrating their 40th birthday, but the Stone Twins show no sign of growing…

14 December 2010

Avant G

books received

For ‘readers who delight and believe in the validity of artists’ visions’

A new book due to be published by Tate Publishing next year reproduces all six…

8 December 2010

Take (imaginary) cover

liz farrelly

Book design fans shelter from the snow at StolenSpace’s ‘Never judge …’ show

Despite the snowy weather, London’s art and design fans came out in force last Thursday…

16 November 2010

The app of A Humument

john l. walters, the apps department

‘The iPad is one of the oldest things in the world ... a pad or a slate.’

Tom Phillips’ A Humument is an artists’ book made by defacing (and hence deconstructing) an…

5 November 2010

A sense of wonder

the type department

Video clips from Marian Bantjes’ Eye talk at St Bride Library in London

On 5 October, Marian Bantjes spoke to a sold-out audience at the St Bride Library…

28 October 2010

Penguins with attitude

john l. walters

Illustrative wrecks and rescues at the publisher’s New York office.

Despite its celebratory title and retro cover design, Penguin 75 is actually a book about…

25 October 2010

Maps and legends

jan middendorp

Charting the working processes of early 21st-century designers

As a lasting souvenir of the first AGI Open conference, which took place in Porto…

21 October 2010

Taking comics seriously

john chalmers, sandra marrs

Visual storytelling is about literature as well as literacy

The graphic novel’s rise in popularity shouldn’t really come as a surprise, write Metaphrog’s Sandra…

19 October 2010

Got to have a map

sally jeffery

For designers, the cartographic viewpoint can be a literal need

There is a vivid phrase in the Nobel prize citation for Mario Vargas Llosa: ‘the…

11 October 2010

Dig for history

Twentieth century Britain, chronicled in the work of Abram Games

Abram Games (1914-96) was one of the twentieth century's most celebrated graphic designers. An exhibition, opening…

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