Review: Graphic design
The nature of a pencil
In this chunky white book Kenya Hara traces his career by filling the pages with some of the thousands of sketches that have been a vital part of his practice.
You can’t bomb a virus
In the early 1990s at the Design Museum café, mentally flitting from the coffee-machine’s slick Gaggia…
Call and response
This hardback book is the catalogue for the 2022-2023 Letterform Archive exhibition of the same name…
Magic and logic
How do you tell the story of the way graphic design actually gets done? Two books…
In your own time
There are some designers who create a body of work that is ahead of its time…
Enter by the exit level
The latest instalment in Unit Editions’ ongoing series of designer monographs, Ed Fella: A Life in…
The joy of logos
Designed and edited by Jens Müller, Logo Beginnings (Taschen, £60) is a well researched and beautifully…
Waiting at the intersection
Designers are often fascinated by a visual practice in which the maker enjoys an enviable autonomy usually unavailable to themselves.
Sci-fi high
I have not enjoyed a novel as much as Rian Hughes’s XX: A Novel, Graphic for some time …
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 …