Review: Design history
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that ‘you can’t…
Swiss style: the prequel
It all started with a letter that Dorothea Hofmann sat down to write to Philip…
Hippie shake-up
What do Victor Moscoso’s psychedelic music posters, Harley Davidson’s Captain America chopper, the film Easy…
Stuck in neutral
The scope of Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland is expansive. The editors have set…
Living in the present
You want inspiration? Buy this book! It is as simple as that. Cleverly exploring a…
A message for modernity
In the late 1950s I had tea in London with László Moholy-Nagy’s former secretary, surrounded…
The museum man
This confidently displayed show draws a line in the sand. It secures the De La…
Poland’s graphic pioneers
Publications attempting a comprehensive overview of a country’s graphic design history have appeared on a…
Scissor action
John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weapon (David King and Ernst Volland, Tate Publishing, £29.9…
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…