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Alex J. Todd

Recent articles by Alex J. Todd

Prism of teachingIssue 102, Autumn 2021
Review
Paul Elliman once spoke of a hypothetical online teaching environment that would embrace digital resources: ‘dictionaries, search engines, mailing lists, chat-rooms …
Everyday peopleIssue 99, Autumn 2019
Feature

                                            
	Emma Thomas and Kirsty Carter’s Apfel, A Practice for Everyday Life, brings design into the art world, and makes design an art            
Where was Weimar?Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Review

                                                The era of the Weimar Republic, which emerged in Germany in the wake of the…                        
Designing with urgencyIssue 99, Autumn 2019
Feature

                                            
	From politics to culture to business, Dutch studio Thonik strikes a balance between adventurous concepts and pragmatic resolutions            
Hard-working hooligansIssue 98, Spring 2019
Review

                                                Scan the pages of recent graphic design history, and its coverage of the rule-breaking mantras…                        
Action to the wordIssue 98, Spring 2019
Review

                                                Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch Posters 1960–1996, is an…                        
Point of differenceIssue 97, Autumn 2018
Feature

                                            
	Enigmatic imagery and restrained typography give HR membership quarterly Work. the visual personality of an independent magazine            
Duck the issueIssue 96, Spring 2018
Review
‘Hope to Nope’ is an exploration of graphic design’s involvement in an escalating period of political unrest.

Recent blog posts about Alex J. Todd

From analogue to activism

11 November 2020
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Visual culture, Events and exhibitions

magCulture Live goes digital next week, for a two-day conference that celebrates the creative and social powers of magazines

Dividing its focus between ‘activism’ and ‘analogue’, magCulture 2020 shows that even in difficult, disruptive…

Crouwel’s institutional intuition

19 September 2020
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Reviews, Events and exhibitions

On the first anniversary of Wim Crouwel’s death, Alex J. Todd recalls a visit to the Stedelijk Museum exhibition ‘Mr. Gridnik’

On 19 September 2019, nine days before the opening of ‘Wim Crouwel: Mr. Gridnik’ at…

Books received #33

18 July 2018
Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Photography, Visual culture

Covers for The New Yorker, Dressed in Black, Female Photographers Now, Graham Rawle’s Overland, A History of Street Photography, Rebel Voices and Brian Eno’s Light Music

Here is a selection of books that caught our attention in recent months. Covers for…