Review
Slip sliding into history
About halfway through this long and highly detailed study of the life and work of…
Taxonomy of twigs and trees
The work of Berlin-based design collective Neubau, founded by Stefan Gandl, is characterised by rigorously…
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and September 2014…
Prolific polymath
Pretty Pictures (Thames & Hudson, £42, $75) covers the astonishing body of work that the…
Stone love
Since the early 1960s Michael Twyman has contributed to the establishment and improvement of standards…
Freestyling text and image
As a second-year undergraduate student at Reading in the early 1990s, I was shown the…
Unpacked baggage
Is any contemporary illustrator a household name today? Not in the same way that Norman…
Book of revelations
The uncontroversial premise of Multiple Signatures is that design is a collaborative act, and so…
Thirty years before the masthead
This book is a lavishly illustrated summary of the three decades when Swiss typography journal…
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or planning to, from what…