Review
Relax and you’ll be swept away
Where to start with a book like The Floating World: Ukiyo-e? There is a tendency…
Transforming data into human stories
Modern pictograms, icons, scientific illustrations and graphic user interfaces owe a lot to the work…
Looking closer than before
‘Looking Closer’ targets the increasing number of designers, design educators and students who are thinking…
Back to our roots
The theme of the 51st ATypI conference, ‘Hands On’, provided an opportunity to look for…
Hands-on design and digital angst at the AIGA
In past years the biennial conference of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) has…
Design as a matter of life and death
When I was at Valley Forge Military Academy during the mid-1960s my second favourite subject (after…
History is made of the typical
Faced no doubt by a plethora of daunting decisions – who to include, which countries…
The designer as programmer
‘Swiss’ is still a style. In the crudest terms, the style was, and is, Helvetica…
The Catalogue As Exhibition
An inescapable fact about exhibiting books is that the essential ingredient of a book –…
Paleolithic pretensions
The hyperbole of this book’s introduction leads to an anticipation that can only be followed…