Review: Reviews
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…
Line boil on the road to hell
The first video game title from Canadian developer StudioMDHR, Cuphead is a run-and-gun game of…
Japanese traces
This winter, the Tokyo exhibition ‘Fragments of Graphism: An Alternative History of Graphic Design in…
Paper trail of a digital pioneer
The publication of Muriel Cooper will be a cause for celebration among many readers of…
A social process
Despite a long and eclectic career that variously spans design, printing, teaching, history and writing…
Health redrawn
Graphic design plays a part in almost every area of our daily lives. But can…
Elusive characters
On the surface, Marcel’s Letters is a fascinating story. Once you dig a little deeper…
A weighty guide to Latin typefaces
More than ever, typography is an incessant talking (and writing) point. Its history is a…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that ‘you can’t…