Review
Modernism and me: a survivor’s tale
On reading the first few pages of Natalia Ilyin’s Chasing the Perfect: Thoughts on Modernist…
Streetwise and interactive
Ever thought about the street where you live in terms of the different smells it…
A serious book, brilliant with experience and discretion
Maud Lavin has written a book for designers who wonder what became of the revolutionaries…
Pieced together
Curating this exhibition of 150 paper-and-glue works, some more than 80 years old, was a…
Manual transmissions
Will Burtin was one of the pioneers of twentieth-century American graphic design, but he strode…
Taking a scalpel to the warmongers
For the politically engaged, Peter Kennard’s photomontages have always been an inspiration. Not only are…
Agents of change convene in Berlin
With an attendance figure approaching 900, Fuse ’95 was certainly a popular event. Typographic conferences…
Networks map a complex world
VisualComplexity.com, founded by Manuel Lima in 2005, is a repository of experimental visual mapping of…
When all the dials were set to ‘lurid’
‘The past,’ as L.P. Hartley opened The Go-Between in 1953, ‘is a foreign country: they…
Bulletins of The Serving Library #1
Following on from where Dot Dot Dot left off, Bulletins of The Serving Library is…