Review: Reviews
Peak practice: beautiful Swiss books
As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…
Smash hits and sound gardens
Exhibitions of ‘sound art’ run the risk of providing little visual interest and too much overlapping…
Urgent images
Is there a more unstable and ephemeral medium for creative communication than thermal fax paper…
Qwerty
The driving force behind Qwerty – all A7 of it – is Stephen Banham, a…
A world of shape and flat colour
The recent exhibition of Tom Eckersley’s posters was the most comprehensive retrospective of his contribution…
Lift and Separate
Before she left her position as curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center, New York…
Letterwork
Latest addition to the swelling library of typography titles is Letterwork: Creative Letterforms in Graphic…
Russian Avant-Garde Books
For anyone interested in the history of the book, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 by Susan…
Collaborating over the wire
Modems have been around for years, but a number of recent developments have made them…
Konnishi wa to multilingual type
Increased globalisation of business means English-speaking designers are working more and more frequently on foreign…