Review
The digital reality of ‘emotional products’
Cover Art By follows on from the Sampler books as a valuable snapshot of current music design, but this time the content is more arcane …
Know what I mean?
Here’s a question for you. Given that it took us an awfully long time to…
Not exactly kid's stuff
As children’s books go, both of the above represent the ambitious end of the market…
Telling it like it is
The long-running Typo Berlin conference brings together a thousand delegates under very expansive, and rather…
Enforced focus
Visual Editions, the company founded by Anna Gerber and Britt Iversen, has quickly established a…
How to write a Modernist’s obituary
History is continually being made, but that does not mean all history will be written. What…
Instant Tarkovsky
Film directors who began their careers as stills photographers are not as common as might…
Isometric illustrator
Hipgnosis. Dark Side of the Moon. Hardie’s iconic collaborations with Storm Thorgerson and co. for…
Crumb’s graphic sweepings
Crumb has been the comics’ deity for me since the early 1960s when I saw…
Pink is the new black(letter)
Since 1998, when Peter Bain and I staged the exhibition ‘Blackletter: Type and National Identity’…