Review: Book design
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…
Relax and you’ll be swept away
Where to start with a book like The Floating World: Ukiyo-e? There is a tendency…
From the typographic to the visual
This book’s title is a librarian’s nightmare. It differs by only three letters from that of…
A manual for readable typography
Inclusive Design reminds me of Max Bill’s later work: clean, simple and a good piece of communication.
The cutting edge of fashion
The decision to show the work alphabetically renders it not so much an ‘exhibition in a book’, as a directory.
Last night I dreamt of a page set in Bitstream Futura
Book Typography is a brief, dense tour around the processes of typesetting texts for books.
Baffling recollections
The pieces overlap, bleed off the edges, and generally defy comprehension … future historians may have the skill to decode it, but I did not.
Peak practice: beautiful Swiss books
As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…