Review: Design history

 
Many players on the Olympic stage

Many players on the Olympic stage

Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
 
A rallying cry for ethics

A rallying cry for ethics

There could not be a more apt time for the publication of Ethics in Design and…
 
Circuit visions

Circuit visions

First shown in Paris in 2019, this multi-sensory exhibition attempts to make connections between electronic music…
 
Signs of street life

Signs of street life

At a time when many of us know our location all too well, having been…
 
Seaside splendour

Seaside splendour

Eclectic, yet streamlined by design. It is perhaps unsurprising that Art Deco is associated with…
 
Gender imbalance

Gender imbalance

Within the design publishing landscape, type-focused titles abound, yet type designed by women remains proportionally under-represented…
 
Cinematic storyteller

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 …

 
Minard’s retirement plans

Minard’s retirement plans

Sandra Rendgen’s The Minard System re-contextualises in book form for the first time the entire…
 
Adventures 
in the book trade

Adventures 
in the book trade

Printing R-Evolution’ has been an unexpected public success, confounding expectations that the incunabula period of…
 
Hard-working hooligans

Hard-working hooligans

Scan the pages of recent graphic design history, and its coverage of the rule-breaking mantras…
 
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