Review
Fanfare for the common man
This book is neither biography nor visual monograph but an entertaining compilation that throws additional…
A passion for graphic expression
A passage in Born Modern recounts how the 39-year-old graphic designer Alvin Lustig invited his…
The visualisation of complex data
St Bride Library has been undergoing something of a renaissance in recent years. It is…
Type space
Supergraphics (Unit Editions, £25 + p&p, only available from uniteditions.com) is a 320-page softback about…
What makes designers tick?
Among design associations, the Alliance Graphique International (AGI, founded in 1952) is a special case…
Joyously tasteless art direction
Allow me to get something off my chest. Of the two jobs I once most…
The sweet green grass of code
Form+Code is an interesting addition to Princeton Architectural Press’s ‘Design Briefs’, a series of books…
When the pen was mighty
These two volumes (Custom Lettering of the 40s & 50s, Custom Lettering of the 60s…
Theatre of cartography
Judith Schalansky subtitles her Atlas of Remote Islands (Particular Books / Penguin, £25) ‘Fifty Islands…
The pop artist as graphic designer
Stars and stripes, hearts and targets – if Peter Blake’s name is not the first…