Review
Designer poetry
I recently discovered on a visit to my daughter’s primary school how today’s methods of…
Brodovitch remembered in style
When Alexey Brodovitch died in 1971, aged 73, he had been a physical wreck for…
Mental as anything
‘Please tell us what you think and hang this card on the corridor wall.’ This…
Studio scrutiny
Web 2.0 has done strange things to graphic design. It has rapidly popularised the discipline…
Failure – the designer’s guardian angel [EXTRACT]
The phrase ‘Design Disasters’ is a bit of Helleresque sensationalism. Perhaps the great man has…
Unstable relations
In what ways does language shape our understanding of art and design? This is the…
Savage pens
They used to say that whoever you voted for, the government always got in, but…
Grandiose gaiety
In comparison to, say, London, Barcelona or Berlin, Paris is often seen as a ‘museum…
Monsters mashed
It takes nothing from the most enjoyable or most informative conversations you’ve ever had to…
Industrial Palimpsest
This book contains a sampling of Dutch designer Karl Martens’ formal experiments in printmaking, colour…