Review: Reviews
An Italian in Zurich
Concrete art was a resolutely European art form (or, to be more specific, a Swiss-German…
LA logo attack
An entirely troubling aspect of debates about product placement (an egregious and underhand marketing practice…
Black gold
If there can be such a thing as a revolutionary coffee table book, Freedom Rhythm…
Towards a theory of everything design
Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field has the potential to be a popular academic…
Poetry of colour
There are two types of primary colours: additive and subtractive. The subtractive primaries (CMYK) are…
The digital reality of ‘emotional products’
Cover Art By follows on from the Sampler books as a valuable snapshot of current music design, but this time the content is more arcane …
Not exactly kid's stuff
As children’s books go, both of the above represent the ambitious end of the market…
Telling it like it is
The long-running Typo Berlin conference brings together a thousand delegates under very expansive, and rather…
Enforced focus
Visual Editions, the company founded by Anna Gerber and Britt Iversen, has quickly established a…
Good intentions writ large
The three alternatives recommended by the authors of Conscientious Objectives are to ‘work for ethical…