Alan Male
Recent articles by Alan Male
The glyphic and the vedutic
Issue 98, Spring 2019
D. B. Dowd’s Stick Figures is a self-consciously polemical book that invites argument.
More than skin deep
Issue 97, Autumn 2018
Many books about visual communication contain scant critique or objective evaluation. Most tend to be…
Ambition and illustration
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Alan Male welcomes a return to the ‘polymath principle’, the idea that an illustrator should engage with their subject matter at a deeper, more authorial level