Review
Handmade graphics refuse to go quietly
Despite huge progressions made by technologies for graphics and printing, the handmade graphic refuses to go away
Baffling recollections
The pieces overlap, bleed off the edges, and generally defy comprehension … future historians may have the skill to decode it, but I did not.
Hands-on design and digital angst at the AIGA
This year’s AIGA conference had no theme other than ‘Design’, set in capitals against a twinkling sea of words.
The cultured sensibility of Cipe Pineles
Say it Sea-pea Pin-ell-ess. Cipe Pineles is credited with being America’s first influential female art director, and many stories could be woven around her multifarious names alone.
A talent that linked Modernism with life
Graphic design is a formless discipline. Functioning at the nexus point of so many traditions…
Political imagery re-examined
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…
Peak practice: beautiful Swiss books
As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…
Writing that lets down the letters
This project is a collaboration between 26 writers (from the professional writers’ association 26) and 2…
The eye of the curator
Exhibitions of graphic design are difficult. Posters do OK: they are the paintings of graphic design. But how about brochures, books, magazines and the like?
A new understanding of spaces
There are many good reasons why the names of Aldus Manutius (1450-1515) and Francesco Griffo (1450-1518)…