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Art without its bitter history
I have a problem with Stalin’s face. He looked exactly like my cat. Exactly. This…
Soft-edged memoir
Duncan Fallowell’s ‘memoir for misfits’ How to disappear (Ditto Press, £14.99) is possibly as interesting…
Picture hunter gatherers
The modern malaise is to over-complicate. In her chatty foreword to The Graphic Eye, Natalia…
Networks map a complex world
VisualComplexity.com, founded by Manuel Lima in 2005, is a repository of experimental visual mapping of…
When all the dials were set to ‘lurid’
‘The past,’ as L.P. Hartley opened The Go-Between in 1953, ‘is a foreign country: they…
Bulletins of The Serving Library #1
Following on from where Dot Dot Dot left off, Bulletins of The Serving Library is…
A botanical garden of graphics
Regular Graphic Design Today provides a thorough overview of the basic interests and styles of…
The ranged left years
As we leave the certainties of the last few decades behind (stable social and economic…
Pipe dreams
Push Pin founders Seymour Chwast (pronounced ‘kwast’) and Milton Glaser instigated a graphic design revolution…
Spectacle and knowledge
This elegant mini-brick of a book, designed by Irma Boom, reproduces a selection of 70…