Review
Unfinished narratives
Type’s new faces
Printer poet
The Last Cuckoo is a film about the life and work of letterpress printer and activist Dennis Gould
In the heat and light of the day
Sci-fi high
I have not enjoyed a novel as much as Rian Hughes’s XX: A Novel, Graphic for some time …
Pop art before it was ‘Art’
Several chapters into this captivating how-to book, Joby Carter jokes about ‘carrying on the fairground tradition …
Shaded tints, a view of US racism
The Design of Race arrives at an inflection point in American society. Awareness of racial, socio-economic and class disparities has been at the forefront of national politics …
Poster man and boy
Paul Rennie’s Tom Eckersley: A Mid-century Modern Master is a fascinating account of Eckersley’s prolific output …
Ambassador for reading
In his daughter Flora’s schoolyard, the late Dutch type designer Gerard Unger (1942-2018) was once approached by a mother who told him that her daughter … [EXTRACT]