Review: Reviews
Design’s virtual Woodstock
I was spoilt for choice. The speakers had all been outstanding, the line-up stellar, the…
The font now arriving at Platform 1
Stories in the glossier design books usually have neat endings: the project is completed successfully…
Bauhaus
‘Arguing is part of the Bauhaus,’ says Philipp Oswalt, director of the current Dessau institution…
Iron curtain Vegas
In the mind’s eye, the Eastern Europe of the cold war is painted with a…
Boy’s Own inventions
American Heritage, a hardcover quarterly, was my favourite magazine in the 960s for its beautifully…
Maira to the max
The illustrative art of Maira Kalman (see Reputations, Eye 47) has a special place in…
Penguin in pictures
The Penguin Collectors’ Society is an owners club for people who worship at the shrine…
Recalling the Vignelli experience
‘In the early 1950s,’ begins Massimo Vignelli in the first chapter of this visual monograph…
The chemistry that created a winning Swiss formula
Where did the ‘Swiss style’ come from? The book Corporate Diversity answers the question: it…
Twentieth-century Renaissance man
My generation grew up in awe of a handful of American designers. Pre-eminent among them…