Review: Reviews
Freestyling text and image
As a second-year undergraduate student at Reading in the early 1990s, I was shown the…
Unpacked baggage
Is any contemporary illustrator a household name today? Not in the same way that Norman…
Book of revelations
The uncontroversial premise of Multiple Signatures is that design is a collaborative act, and so…
Thirty years before the masthead
This book is a lavishly illustrated summary of the three decades when Swiss typography journal…
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or planning to, from what…
Unravelling pages
Warren Lehrer is best known for French Fries (Visual Studies Workshop Press / EarSay Books…
We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark
In the early 1990s I produced a number of facsimile editions of publications of the…
Absent insights
By its title, L’Écartelage reveals its focus on Surrealism in the work of Pierre Faucheux…
A small ‘M’ modern master
The history of graphic design has many gaps and omissions, whether through shifting tastes, technology…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is beautifully…