Review
From A-Z but not in that order
Hypermedia is a glorious encapsulation of other media. It has brought video, computing, design, sound…
Worth the paper it's printed on?
As the design profession gained prominence in the last decade, it also caught the eye…
High thoughts on a self-effacing art
‘To begin with, let us enumerate what is repulsive and therefore wrong.’ Thus opens an…
The keyboards that ate the world
The celebratory aspect of this publishing exercise is evident from the outset. The art director, Takenobu…
Type design with a straight face
The title of this sumptuous book is a surprise. Despite Matthew Carter’s much-reported encounters with travelling…
Reflections of a typographer
Like a number of words used by typographers, ‘modern’ can mean more than one thing. Two…
When media worlds collide
Hypertext is the communication media’s equivalent of cold fusion. It is one of those fuzzy…
Pictorial Maps
Richard Saul Wurman, publisher of the Access city guides and information design guru, does not much…
Green images
During the Second World War, the civilian population was regularly exhorted by the British Government…
Precision of a purist
Jean Widmer is a rare instance of a Swiss graphic designer who gets little publicity…