Review
Spectacle and knowledge
This elegant mini-brick of a book, designed by Irma Boom, reproduces a selection of 70…
Tschichold: contention and celebrity [EXTRACT]
Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer is 350 big pages of heavy paper, hundreds of illustrations, decorative…
All the juice that fits, in bite-size bits
Shortly after it began trading, Innocent received a letter from the Trading Standards Office enquiring…
Art’s talented daughter
Laurie Anderson’s communication skills, drawing ability and fund of ideas might have made her a pretty…
Design’s virtual Woodstock
I was spoilt for choice. The speakers had all been outstanding, the line-up stellar, the…
Down Mexico Way
This hefty book examines the vernacular usage of the blackletter typeface in Mexico, attempting, ‘with…
Swing to the right… creatively speaking
Many art and design educators look to the idea of the lateralisation of brain function…
One for the nihilistas
Throw up once at a party and it’s rude, ignorant and a bit pathetic. Make…
Who’s zooming whom?
Almost twenty years ago, when I first saw Hungarian illustrator Istvan Banyai’s portfolio, he was…
The font now arriving at Platform 1
Stories in the glossier design books usually have neat endings: the project is completed successfully…