Review: Visual culture
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and September 2014…
Freestyling text and image
As a second-year undergraduate student at Reading in the early 1990s, I was shown the…
Book of revelations
The uncontroversial premise of Multiple Signatures is that design is a collaborative act, and so…
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or planning to, from what…
Absent insights
By its title, L’Écartelage reveals its focus on Surrealism in the work of Pierre Faucheux…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is beautifully…
Towering ambition
Audiovisual events that genuinely work are so rare that Brooklyn Babylon (Holland Festival, 24 June…
The future was Afro
Slightly larger than a 45rpm single and thick as a modest box-set, this book evocatively…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results, as Signs…
Cute cultural tourism
Hello Kitty and Pokemon seem to have taken over the world in recent decades. But…