Review
Rhetoric of the square
Blank Page, a series of six ‘books’ or portfolios, each of which finds coherence in…
Club-runner graphics
In the mid to late 1980s we would be out every night at some club…
US designers with attitude
Twelve-hundred graphic designers from over 30 regional chapters of the American Institute of Graphic Arts…
The desktop repro-house
Asking a graphic designer if he recommends desktop repro is like asking a general practitioner if he recommends coffee-table surgery …
Franklin the myth-maker
The 37th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition, held in the gallery at the International Typeface…
David Stone Martin
Jazz Graphics by Manek Daver (Graphic-Sha, £27.50) is an encyclopaedic compendium of album covers designed…
Word, image and emotion
Graphic design history is a notoriously tricky subject spanning, as it inevitably has to, a…
The end of an art form?
Is the poster a valid communication medium or a historical object that graphic designers refuse…
Dutch Best Books
During the 1950s and 1960s, the Dutch Best Book Designs review was perhaps the public’s…