Review: Graphic design
We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark
In the early 1990s I produced a number of facsimile editions of publications of the…
A small ‘M’ modern master
The history of graphic design has many gaps and omissions, whether through shifting tastes, technology…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is beautifully…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results, as Signs…
Menacing identities
This brooding black hardback, which looks like a CIA manual, is a worldwide survey of…
A cornucopia of Indian design
This anthology of interviews with Indian graphic designers gained exposure in the UK earlier this…
Surfing a 1960s California wave
Having spent a week alternately prancing and slogging through John Van Hamersveld’s career-capping monograph, I…
Cold war modern machine music
Music humanises technology: from the thump of a hunter’s bone to the whine of a…
From logo to holo
This is the first book that has taken me ten minutes just to look at…
Duo-tome
In 2013, the overblown, completist pretensions of a career-defining monograph seem, well, a bit old-fashioned…