Review: Book design
You can’t bomb a virus
In the early 1990s at the Design Museum café, mentally flitting from the coffee-machine’s slick Gaggia…
Read this space
Catherine Griffiths: Solo in [ ] Space by Zhihua Duan with Catherine Griffiths is ostensibly the…
Enter by the exit level
The latest instalment in Unit Editions’ ongoing series of designer monographs, Ed Fella: A Life in…
Feminist pot-luck
If you can get your hands on an original copy of Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, consider yourself lucky – it was printed in an edition of just 100 copies …
Pictoglyphic time travel
If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s…
Drawn from the capital
London can be a hard city to love, but David Gentleman always finds good reasons, which…
Max’s life is all mapped out
This book is about far more than Leslie MacDonald Gill (better known as Max) and can…
Data storytelling in late Victorian London
The design community is currently fascinated by data storytelling. Everyone wants to design visual tales…
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
Cinematic storyteller
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is an enthralling visual document of King’s work from his student experiments to the groundbreaking visual histories of his later years …