Review: Graphic design
Signs of the times
Every few years or so, a choice handful of illustrator / designers make a splash…
Anglo-Saxon latitudes
The London transport maps designed by MacDonald (Max) Gill can be regarded as sitting in…
Hardcore history
More than 40 years after punk happened, the phenomenon is still being fêted as a…
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a book was…
Don’t judge a book by its title
Never judge a book by its title. If I had done that, I would never…
Party people
‘Made In North Korea’ (House of Illustration, London, 26 March–13 May 2018) is a window…
Relics of a vanished world
‘It’s all about nostalgia now,’ writes Malcolm Garrett in his introduction to Letraset: The DIY…
No fixed style
Among British independent record companies, Mute Records, founded in 1978 by ‘accident’, has never enjoyed…
Japanese traces
This winter, the Tokyo exhibition ‘Fragments of Graphism: An Alternative History of Graphic Design in…
A social process
Despite a long and eclectic career that variously spans design, printing, teaching, history and writing…