Review: Reviews
Relentless information
Riding the persistent wave of popular interest in data visualisation, Taschen’s Information Graphics is a…
Fear of the black
Last winter, as queues formed outside Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs for retrospectives on graphic…
Psychedelic tract
The era of psychedelic art – from the mid 1960s to the very early 70s…
Ways of seeing design
From the breadth and vitality of the recent densely compiled retrospective exhibition of Richard Hollis’s…
Signs of life under an iron fist
Graphic design histories are, in large part, harvests of unearthed images and anecdotes. Every time…
Dan Dare, Bunty and all their pals
James Chapman states his intentions openly: to trace the development of the British comics industry…
A disappointing splash
The archly titled Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing has a semi-legendary reputation as both…
Bible of babel
The 2012 European Design Awards, the winners of which were announced in Helsinki on 2…
A tale of two diagrams
Frank Pick, the London Underground system’s legendary manager, believed good design was good for business.He…
Gentle giant
Tom Gauld’s Goliath tells the story of David and Goliath from the latter’s point of…