Review: Reviews
Adventures in the book trade
Printing R-Evolution’ has been an unexpected public success, confounding expectations that the incunabula period of…
Hard-working hooligans
Scan the pages of recent graphic design history, and its coverage of the rule-breaking mantras…
Information and emancipation
This book brings to light an audacious moment in the long career of civil rights…
Easy reading
Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…
File under undefined
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) spent most of his life trying to remain uncategorised and undefined. Despite…
A century of no, No, NO
An air of discontent has been fomenting in the US since the turmoil of the…
Waste not
For many years Vaughan Oliver was the in-house designer for the 4AD record label, creating…
Action to the word
Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch Posters 1960–1996, is an…
Rules of engagement
Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd’s Stick Figures is a self-consciously polemical book that invites argument.