Review
California gleaming
Vivid red fruit that shines as though made of Bakelite; naked women’s bodies undulating like…
We need a hero
Third in the series ‘Graphic design in the Netherlands’, Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice takes…
Electronic Tumbleweed
When someone sets out to make a book to save the planet, they lay themselves…
Larger than life itself: 2x4 at SFMOMA
Rhonda Rubinstein, David Peters
It takes a certain kind of designer to turn a 600 square foot museum gallery…
The many sides of Willem Sandberg
Chris Brawn, Christopher Brawn
No graphic design history is complete without the inclusion of Jonkheer Willem Jacob Henri Berend…
Symbolise and summarise
Why has there never been a definitive book about the work of Saul Bass, one…
Impressions of another time
In an attempt to re-assess the foundations of today’s electronic type design, Fred Smeijers went…
Jump-cut collage
‘Roman Cieslewicz’, at London’s Royal College of Art features more than 150 items by the…
No way to treat a woman (designer)
A couple of years ago I wrote a series of essays whose working title was…
Not dead, just sleeping
There are 300 or so death masks in the collection of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society…