Review: Typography
Bruce Rogers in the twentieth century
The Centaur types are arguably the greatest achievement of the Indiana-born typographer and book designer…
Stuck in neutral
The scope of Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland is expansive. The editors have set…
Pictures made of books
Few children’s picturebooks are quite like this. A Child of Books (Walker Books, £12.99) is…
In praise of infrastructure: BR’s corporate identity manual is resurrected
The British Rail Corporate Identity Manual was a labour of love for Wallace Henning, a…
More than just a gridnik
Wim Crouwel: Modernist is the disingenuously bald title of a richly textured portrait of the…
A single-minded art director
A stone’s throw from the building in Cologne where Twen, Germany’s Zeitgeist magazine of the…
The ‘bookness’ of books
Hundreds of books about books have been published during the past century. A complete bibliographic…
Thesis & antithesis & synthesis (& EJ)
There are few high-profile ‘traditional’ graphic design studios whose members discuss their work in such…
The unsung stencil master
W. A. Dwiggins (1880-1956), the US designer best known for his typefaces Metro, Electra and…
Automonography
Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as…