Review: Graphic design
The boy’s book of Pentagram
Pentagram are masters of self-promotion. ‘Books win friends,’ says Theo Crosby, ‘and buying friendship is…
Political imagery re-examined
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…
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…
Lift and Separate
Before she left her position as curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center, New York…
High thoughts on a self-effacing art
‘To begin with, let us enumerate what is repulsive and therefore wrong.’ Thus opens an…
The desktop repro-house
Asking a graphic designer if he recommends desktop repro is like asking a general practitioner if he recommends coffee-table surgery …
Typography’s new priests
‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…