Review: Book design
No fixed style
Among British independent record companies, Mute Records, founded in 1978 by ‘accident’, has never enjoyed…
Books on books
The London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA), founded in 2012 by artists Simon Goode and…
In praise of infrastructure: BR’s corporate identity manual is resurrected
The British Rail Corporate Identity Manual was a labour of love for Wallace Henning, a…
More than just a gridnik
Wim Crouwel: Modernist is the disingenuously bald title of a richly textured portrait of the…
The ‘bookness’ of books
Hundreds of books about books have been published during the past century. A complete bibliographic…
Industrialised folk art
Alexander Girard ‘brought together what the modern had once separated: craftsmanship and industry, folk art…
Eventure playground
Boooook is the first publication to give a retrospective overview of the life and work…
Automonography
Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as…
Learning from Ladybird
For any member of the generations who grew up with Ladybird Books, the mini-hardback format…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is beautifully…