Review
Shouting from the shelves
Faber and Faber, the independent British publisher founded in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber (there was…
The idea will not be found in a book
This slim book of 80 pages will take maybe one hour of your time. The…
No-frills chronicle of a publisher
Phil Baines’s scholarly book, jammed with more than 500 covers, is a straightforward, no-frills chronicle…
Consequent to the last detail
Looking at the kitchen mixers, hi-fi equipment and other products that Dieter Rams (b. 1932)…
The words of the prophets
Subway Art by photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant (Thames & Hudson, 1984) changed my…
South African Pop Culture
… Liberally interpreted, Afro is a magazine. Eschewing the strict linear chronology of a bound…
Let’s not forget about culture
The TEDS conference, ‘information architect’ Richard Saul Wurman’s fifth technology/entertainment/design extravaganza, was a mixture of…
Instruments of radical change
Rodchenko, Lissitzy and Moholy-Nagy were founding fathers of modern graphic design. Art historians have assured…
A gap between screen and page
This is the book of the well received British TV series ‘Bridge’. The book is…
The impact of Vorticism
Is it a sign of the growing acceptance of graphic design as a legitimate subject…