Review: Reviews
Waiting at the intersection
Designers are often fascinated by a visual practice in which the maker enjoys an enviable autonomy usually unavailable to themselves.
Unfinished narratives
In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of books and projects that…
Type’s new faces
Weighing in at a little under two kilos and running to a whopping 832 pages…
Printer poet
The Last Cuckoo is a film about the life and work of letterpress printer and activist Dennis Gould
Fighting words
There is an elephant in the room, but there are some signs that we are…
In the heat and light of the day
A woman walks up to a building’s flat rooftop in Bobo-Dioulasso (above), the second-largest city in…
Sci-fi high
I have not enjoyed a novel as much as Rian Hughes’s XX: A Novel, Graphic for some time …
Pop art before it was ‘Art’
Several chapters into this captivating how-to book, Joby Carter jokes about ‘carrying on the fairground tradition …
Poster man and boy
Paul Rennie’s Tom Eckersley: A Mid-century Modern Master is a fascinating account of Eckersley’s prolific output …
Ambassador for reading
In his daughter Flora’s schoolyard, the late Dutch type designer Gerard Unger (1942-2018) was once approached by a mother who told him that her daughter … [EXTRACT]