Opinion
The pleasures of browsing
Rick Poynor plays ‘hotel inspector’ to find a bookshop that understands its books and readers: Sydney’s Published Art. Critique by Rick Poynor
Scrapbook from China
In March, Robert Linsky and I went to China with fourteen MassArt [Massachusetts College of…
An alphabetical catwalk
A window on the world of learning, from school to uni; from postgraduate study to CPD.
Algerian poster project
From 15 to 17 April 2009 I had the opportunity to spend a few days…
Cult of the squiggly
Over-abundant embellishment is spiralling out of control. Time to get out the shears, cries Steven Heller.
Editorial Eye 72
Last summer we tackled the canon of graphic design history in a special issue; this…
Bad timing
In a new Obama-led world order, Omega’s lust for luxury seems as misplaced as a licence to kill. Critique by Rick Poynor
The canon, aimed at your back
GenPrag’s T-shirts celebrate the most emblematic of twentieth-century graphic design heroes. So let’s have one for Will Burtin. Critique by Rick Poynor
Risk and ritual
Anne Harild’s work offers a challenge to the unthreatening norms of British illustration