Review
A historical slant on design
In the introduction to their history of graphic design during the past 200 years, Paul…
Cage recast as eye candy
American composer John Cage was a prankster, a gameshow champion and a creator of graphic…
Protest minus the politics
The 1990s began ostensibly as the decade of ‘caring and sharing’, with politicians such as…
Experiments in movement
At the end of the nineteenth century, the onslaught of science, urban modernism and technological…
He put his stamp on Dutch culture
R. D. E. ‘Ootje’ Oxenaar (b. 1929) was a key figure in the modernisation of…
Stretching the credibility of science
Sometimes an exhibition so successfully crystallises a change in the way designers think about what…
A lifetime of brush-script problem-solving
There is a photograph of Ashley Havinden (1903-73), taken for Country Life sometime late in…
Art without its bitter history
I have a problem with Stalin’s face. He looked exactly like my cat. Exactly. This…
Soft-edged memoir
Duncan Fallowell’s ‘memoir for misfits’ How to disappear (Ditto Press, £14.99) is possibly as interesting…
Picture hunter gatherers
The modern malaise is to over-complicate. In her chatty foreword to The Graphic Eye, Natalia…