Review
A lifetime of brush-script problem-solving
There is a photograph of Ashley Havinden (1903-73), taken for Country Life sometime late in…
Art without its bitter history
I have a problem with Stalin’s face. He looked exactly like my cat. Exactly. This…
Soft-edged memoir
Duncan Fallowell’s ‘memoir for misfits’ How to disappear (Ditto Press, £14.99) is possibly as interesting…
Picture hunter gatherers
The modern malaise is to over-complicate. In her chatty foreword to The Graphic Eye, Natalia…
Modernism and me: a survivor’s tale
On reading the first few pages of Natalia Ilyin’s Chasing the Perfect: Thoughts on Modernist…
Streetwise and interactive
Ever thought about the street where you live in terms of the different smells it…
A serious book, brilliant with experience and discretion
Maud Lavin has written a book for designers who wonder what became of the revolutionaries…
Pieced together
Curating this exhibition of 150 paper-and-glue works, some more than 80 years old, was a…
Manual transmissions
Will Burtin was one of the pioneers of twentieth-century American graphic design, but he strode…
Taking a scalpel to the warmongers
For the politically engaged, Peter Kennard’s photomontages have always been an inspiration. Not only are…