Review
Concrete evidence
It is not unusual for the work of artists and designers to make the transition…
Toys are us
Tania Prill, Sebastian Cremers
Not a Toy, a boundary-busting book of art and fashion, is edited by Vassilis Zidianakis…
When Andy got his sticky fingers on an album . . .
Andy Warhol (1928-87) is the artist who will not die. His life and work helped…
Architectural fallout
In the centre of the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana is a big new office block…
Print’s not dead: it just smells funny
Kristina Nickel’s ‘handbook for media designers’ comes shrink-wrapped with a glowing quote from Erik Spiekermann…
You can judge by the cover
Designer Andrew Howard’s catalogue of his exhibition Gateways: An International Exhibition of Book Covers, Portugal…
Welcome to the nuclear terror dome
A complex, compressed, highly suggestive assemblage, this exhibition deftly lays out the strange tale of…
What a genius
At one time, Barney Bubbles seemed like the Zelig of graphic design, the man who…
Sex and pulp and rock’n’roll
In 1952, US Congressman Ezekiel C. Gathings singled out pocket-sized, mass-market paperbacks as being for…
Sailing down a mighty river of type
Over the past five centuries the Netherlands has become an extremely densely populated country and…