Review
Another self-indulgent design monograph
A wall of Stefan Sagmeister’s work / live apartment in New York bears the handwritten…
Revealing images
Bookshop shelves groan with giant compendiums of illustration, heavy on image, light on information or…
The New Typography
The statement in the publicity for the one-day event organised by Kingston University promised much…
Ware comes back with a darker narrative
After a four-year hiatus spent repackaging earlier work for a mainstream audience, Chris Ware finally…
Type tales told for ordinary folk
It was hard to avoid Just My Type in the weeks before its publication in…
Nuffin’ like a Puffin
Phil Baines’s Penguin by Design: A Cover Story (2005) was, even at a glance, a…
Biography of a special case
Robin Kinross’s book about Anthony Froshaug has been anticipated in typographic circles for many years…
Pieced together in Ambleside
I’m sure that most designers will know about some aspect of Kurt Schwitters’ work, probably an…
An abundance of directions
Edo Smitshuijzen has an impressive track record as a designer of major identity and signage projects…
The man on every French bookshelf
The French designer known as Massin (he removed his first name, Robert, in the early days…