Review
He has ways of making you read
Few novels have made use of graphic design for background or context, let alone made…
Nostalgia to tingle the spine
Seven Hundred Penguins (Penguin, £20) is exactly what it says it is: 700 utterly random…
A talent that linked Modernism with life
Graphic design is a formless discipline. Functioning at the nexus point of so many traditions…
Space is not the place
They used to say that the geeks would inherit the earth. Somehow it doesn’t look…
Union of Soviet socialist images
Cover design for Red Star Over Russia (Tate). In 1970 David King was in Moscow…
Type conference for the ‘little guys’ [extract]
The existence of TypeCon speaks to the popularity of type – or fonts, as most…
The lost world of clean modernism
When we look at the graphic design of Hans Schleger we are transported to the…
A botanical garden of graphics
Regular Graphic Design Today provides a thorough overview of the basic interests and styles of…
The ranged left years
As we leave the certainties of the last few decades behind (stable social and economic…
Putting the graph in graphic
Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag, £40, $78, €49.90) is publisher…