Review: Reviews
Public art for public art’s sake
Scott King’s Public Art blends fact and fiction, satire and speculation in a critique of…
Bruce Rogers in the twentieth century
The Centaur types are arguably the greatest achievement of the Indiana-born typographer and book designer…
Hippie shake-up
What do Victor Moscoso’s psychedelic music posters, Harley Davidson’s Captain America chopper, the film Easy…
Stuck in neutral
The scope of Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland is expansive. The editors have set…
A life in grafix
Here’s a fantastic, heavy, extraordinary 374-page book whose ten chapters chart the designer Ian ‘Swifty’…
Street haunting
Ghost signs have long been popular as landmarks, historical devices, ornaments and visual research; adding…
Animals fight back
This book of 115 black-and-white woodcut illustrations and few words carries an affecting, forceful message…
Non-woolly mammoth
There are few publications that can boast the depth of resource, aspiration and expertise as…
Museums on display
The academic study of design history is one that has only emerged within the past…
Paradise debunked
The consensus among designers is that the middle of the last century was the golden…