Review
Vinyl colossus
In his foreword, jazz legend Sonny Rollins notes that the label felt more youthful than its rivals.
More kicks than pricks
Subtitled ‘visual evidence of a life in music and magazines’, it is a companion to Animal House, James Brown’s autobiography.
All honour the archive
The English type industry began to decline in the 1960s as offset printing and photocomposition…
Fast-forward to the future
The reputation of Archigram, a kind of experimental architectural think tank, founded in London in…
From the heart, head and hand
Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work celebrates more than six decades of an extraordinary career in…
Pop-up type
Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape (Katherine Small Gallery, $85, £70) addresses the…
Pocket-money publishing
In December 1940, when Britain was in the early throes of the Second World War…
Print in the city
In addition to the evident appeal of buses and trains as exemplars of urban machinery…
A quiet icon
There are designers who shape the visual culture of a particular community without their names…
Lost and now found
Luca Lattuga’s Alfabeti Modernisti Italiani (Lazy Dog Press, 2025, €70) displays 124 long-forgotten sans serif…