Review: Reviews
Wordplay for a picture palace
In classical texts on the ‘art of memory’, the student is advised to visualise objects…
Cold war modern machine music
Music humanises technology: from the thump of a hunter’s bone to the whine of a…
If not for design …
Books about design aimed at a relatively broad audience that are historically informed and critically…
From logo to holo
This is the first book that has taken me ten minutes just to look at…
Duo-tome
In 2013, the overblown, completist pretensions of a career-defining monograph seem, well, a bit old-fashioned…
Letters on location
Many francophiles would say that there are more interesting, beautiful cities to visit in France…
Mr Beck’s uke map
Just over a hundred years ago the music business experienced its first major crisis. The…
The physics of sitting
Brian Lutz’s Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman will appeal to all designers – as much…
More than a gender
‘I never set out to be the only woman blah-blah,’ insists Paula Scher, the first…
Design history disciplined
What kind of discipline is graphic design history? Catherine de Smet provided one answer in…