Review: Magazines
Cinematic storyteller
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is an enthralling visual document of King’s work from his student experiments to the groundbreaking visual histories of his later years …
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd’s Stick Figures is a self-consciously polemical book that invites argument.
Shock and oral history
Ian Birch’s Uncovered: Revolutionary Magazine Covers is an entertaining browse through some of the most…
Japanese traces
This winter, the Tokyo exhibition ‘Fragments of Graphism: An Alternative History of Graphic Design in…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that ‘you can’t…
A single-minded art director
A stone’s throw from the building in Cologne where Twen, Germany’s Zeitgeist magazine of the…
Book of the mag of the moment
IL is the monthly supplement of the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. Since…
Scissor action
John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weapon (David King and Ernst Volland, Tate Publishing, £29.9…
Dreaming in Colors
In the ‘about’ section on the Colors website, you can see a sepia-tone photograph of…
Thirty years before the masthead
This book is a lavishly illustrated summary of the three decades when Swiss typography journal…