Review: Typography
Signs of street life
At a time when many of us know our location all too well, having been…
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 …
Faenza mon amour
Faenza is a pleasant little medieval Italian town with a name meaning ‘glazed earthenware’ (as…
Swiss fresh air
This modest book is the first to cover the long career of Swiss graphic designer…
Easy reading
Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…
Rules of engagement
Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…
An old-fashioned alien invasion
Oldham’s project has been more than two years in the making, and They Live’s enduring impact on visual culture makes it a good place to start …
Anglo-Saxon latitudes
The London transport maps designed by MacDonald (Max) Gill can be regarded as sitting in…
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a book was…