Review: Reviews
Room with a collective view
To launch the fifth issue of their eponymous publication, the Le Gun collective (see ‘Garage…
On the barricades
The posters produced by the Atelier Populaire are weapons in the service of the struggle…
Love letters
Scripts, with a jazz-like mix of virtuosity and improvisation, can represent many things, from intimacy…
A Modernist’s voyage of discovery
The Design Museum’s Wim Crouwel retrospective offers a voyage of discovery into form-making – the…
Taking a scalpel to the dictators
John Heartfield is credited with having invented ‘political photomontage’ but an equally prolific fotomonteur was…
Brodovitch’s encore
In 1945, the small New York publisher J. J. Augustin published, in an edition of…
Divided along historical lines
There is a strong similarity between geography and chronology. Both are concerned with order, with…
Glamorous layers of interpretation
Recent shows of performance / political art pioneers such as Group Material, David Wojnarowicz, Laurie…
Britannia waves the flag
A Symbol for the Festival tells an illuminating personal and graphic design history in the…
Making history? Or writing about it?
Graphic design is such a pervasive part of everyday life it could easily be characterised…