Review: Reviews
Tightly cropped critique
The subtitle of James Clough’s generously illustrated Signs of Italy: Outdoor Lettering Up and Down…
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…
Dreaming in Colors
In the ‘about’ section on the Colors website, you can see a sepia-tone photograph of…
Nested narratives
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Abrams, $35, £21.99) – the book of the film – comes…
Unpredictable Swiss design
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, created in 1875, was a pioneer institution in collecting graphic…
True confessions
Two recent exhibitions in London shone a light into some less explored corners of the…
Ring-bound to rule them all
Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines (Unit Editions, £75) follows Unit Editions’ Manuals 1, 201…
Anecdotage
GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years and Beyond, which reminisces over the past half-century of the graphic design…
History of pictures worth reading
Benoît Buquet, a teacher of the theory and history of contemporary art, sees no reason…