Review
Design’s virtual Woodstock
I was spoilt for choice. The speakers had all been outstanding, the line-up stellar, the…
Down Mexico Way
This hefty book examines the vernacular usage of the blackletter typeface in Mexico, attempting, ‘with…
Swing to the right… creatively speaking
Many art and design educators look to the idea of the lateralisation of brain function…
One for the nihilistas
Throw up once at a party and it’s rude, ignorant and a bit pathetic. Make…
Who’s zooming whom?
Almost twenty years ago, when I first saw Hungarian illustrator Istvan Banyai’s portfolio, he was…
The font now arriving at Platform 1
Stories in the glossier design books usually have neat endings: the project is completed successfully…
Bauhaus
‘Arguing is part of the Bauhaus,’ says Philipp Oswalt, director of the current Dessau institution…
Ceci n’est pas une exposition
Constraints, Charles Eames was once quoted as saying, are the factors that shape design more…
‘Folk art’ without the quote marks
When I first met Jeremy Deller eleven years ago it was a match made in…
Ken Garland’s life in politics
“In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.” With…