Review: Visual culture
Hippie shake-up
What do Victor Moscoso’s psychedelic music posters, Harley Davidson’s Captain America chopper, the film Easy…
Paradise debunked
The consensus among designers is that the middle of the last century was the golden…
Living in the present
You want inspiration? Buy this book! It is as simple as that. Cleverly exploring a…
Industrialised folk art
Alexander Girard ‘brought together what the modern had once separated: craftsmanship and industry, folk art…
Activism follows anger
How do you channel anger into effective activism? This question remains urgent in an era…
Design culture with constraints
Until recently, everyday commercial graphic design from East Germany was largely absent from the cultural…
Automonography
Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as…
The museum man
This confidently displayed show draws a line in the sand. It secures the De La…
Tightly cropped critique
The subtitle of James Clough’s generously illustrated Signs of Italy: Outdoor Lettering Up and Down…
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…