Review: Illustration
Pictoglyphic time travel
If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s…
Drawn from the capital
London can be a hard city to love, but David Gentleman always finds good reasons, which…
Max’s life is all mapped out
It is Max’s story of artistic struggle, hard work and self-belief [and] the emergence of graphic design as a discipline
Captain litho
Barnett Freedman (1901-56) was an artist / designer from a Jewish immigrant family who grasped…
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
Seaside splendour
Eclectic, yet streamlined by design. It is perhaps unsurprising that Art Deco is associated with…
File under undefined
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) spent most of his life trying to remain uncategorised and undefined. Despite…
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd’s Stick Figures is a self-consciously polemical book that invites argument.
Paranoia in the void
The selection of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina for the Man Booker longlist – the first time…
Signs of the times
Every few years or so, a choice handful of illustrator / designers make a splash…