Review: Graphic design
Activism follows anger
How do you channel anger into effective activism? This question remains urgent in an era…
Design culture with constraints
Until recently, everyday commercial graphic design from East Germany was largely absent from the cultural…
The book of Michael
It is a pleasure to read a book that is honest, accessible and direct about…
Thesis & antithesis & synthesis (& EJ)
There are few high-profile ‘traditional’ graphic design studios whose members discuss their work in such…
Automonography
Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as…
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…
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…
Fighting back with pictures
This is the third book which Liz McQuiston has written on graphic protest in the…