Review: Design history
Call and response
This hardback book is the catalogue for the 2022-2023 Letterform Archive exhibition of the same name…
Fading into significance
Faded advertising signs are more widespread than we think. Ghost Signs: A London Story explores the…
Waiting at the intersection
Designers are often fascinated by a visual practice in which the maker enjoys an enviable autonomy usually unavailable to themselves.
Unfinished narratives
In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of books and projects that…
Love letter to the future
The book’s position is stated in the title; it looks at design in relation to sexism, ableism and racism …
A ground-breaking survey
As educators of visual communication in the Arab world, we are all too often guilty of…
Max’s life is all mapped out
It is Max’s story of artistic struggle, hard work and self-belief [and] the emergence of graphic design as a discipline
Read and destroy
Art and design pedagogy is generally agreed today on the imperative for educators to facilitate independent…
Captain litho
Barnett Freedman (1901-56) was an artist / designer from a Jewish immigrant family who grasped…
Data storytelling in late Victorian London
The design community is currently fascinated by data storytelling. Everyone wants to design visual tales…