Review
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…
Safety pins and Letraset
In recent years, the work of several British graphic designers has been elevated from the…
A tradition of departure
The United States’ cultural institutions have much to learn from the Netherlands. This was one…
Laughter, the best medicine
My eyes were opened to humour in design in the early 1970s when I went to…
A century of magazine
The magazine is the key print medium of the twentieth century. It occupies that void…