Review: Reviews
Circuit visions
First shown in Paris in 2019, this multi-sensory exhibition attempts to make connections between electronic music…
Signs of street life
At a time when many of us know our location all too well, having been…
Seaside splendour
Eclectic, yet streamlined by design. It is perhaps unsurprising that Art Deco is associated with…
Gender imbalance
Within the design publishing landscape, type-focused titles abound, yet type designed by women remains proportionally under-represented…
Cinematic storyteller
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is an enthralling visual document of King’s work from his student experiments to the groundbreaking visual histories of his later years …
One hundred years new
Jeremy Aynsley’s Graphic Design in Germany 1890-1945 was published almost twenty years ago. Professor Rössler’s…
The advocacy of Tschichold
As Paul Stirton, the curator of ‘Jan Tschichold and the New Typography’ readily admits, his…
Where was Weimar?
The era of the Weimar Republic, which emerged in Germany in the wake of the…
Design odyssey
Stanley Kubrick (1928-99) has long been the ultimate designers’ director, a man who presided over…
In search of dialogue
The Design Observer (DO) blog was launched in 2003 by William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, Michael…