Review
Failure – the designer’s guardian angel [EXTRACT]
The phrase ‘Design Disasters’ is a bit of Helleresque sensationalism. Perhaps the great man has…
Unstable relations
In what ways does language shape our understanding of art and design? This is the…
Savage pens
They used to say that whoever you voted for, the government always got in, but…
Grandiose gaiety
In comparison to, say, London, Barcelona or Berlin, Paris is often seen as a ‘museum…
Monsters mashed
It takes nothing from the most enjoyable or most informative conversations you’ve ever had to…
Industrial Palimpsest
This book contains a sampling of Dutch designer Karl Martens’ formal experiments in printmaking, colour…
Off the shelf
Jonny Trunk is obsessed by the childhood memory of a cornflake box seen on family…
Consequences for the comic artist
Nelson is, according to Rob Davis’s introduction, ‘a testament to what comics truly are’. But…
Gnomic utterances
There is nothing new about artist’s books composed from pieced together, ironically juxtaposed snippets of…
Product design: secular religion or useful hobby?
Encouraged, no doubt, by the well deserved success of his first documentary, Helvetica (2007; see…