Review: Book design
From the typographic to the visual
This book’s title is a librarian’s nightmare. It differs by only three letters from that of…
Peak practice: beautiful Swiss books
As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…
The book as dark, musty gallery
Graphic designer Carin Goldberg’s first book is a catalogue. Though at first glance it is reminiscent…
Russian Avant-Garde Books
For anyone interested in the history of the book, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 by Susan…
High thoughts on a self-effacing art
‘To begin with, let us enumerate what is repulsive and therefore wrong.’ Thus opens an…
Typography’s new priests
‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…