A. M. Cassandre
Recent articles about A. M. Cassandre
I am a poster
Issue 92, Summer 2016
David Crowley, curator of ‘The Poster Remediated’ at the Warsaw International Poster Biennale…
A tradition with breaks
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and…
Pages from the library of libraries
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
One from the heart
Issue 6, Spring 1992
Four years ago, Rick Valicenti said goodbye to his corporate clients and set out to reinvent…
Hergé’s adventures in the world of graphics
Issue 69, Autumn 2008
Modern method
Issue 79, Spring 2011
As the Design Museum launches a retrospective of Wim Crouwel’s work, Kerry William Purcell…
The designer as programmer
Issue 43, Spring 2002
Reputations: Alex Steinweiss
Issue 76, Summer 2010
‘I got this idea that the way they were selling these albums was ridiculous. The covers were just…
Moderne times
Issue 61, Autumn 2006
Why has France’s influence upon European graphic design been underestimated and neglected?
Early commercial posters [EXTRACT]
Issue 54, Winter 2004
Googling the design canon
Issue 68, Summer 2008
In the late 1980s, US designer and historian Martha Scotford set out on a mission to discover what…
Mr Mistral
Issue 79, Spring 2011
New discoveries about Roger Excoffon’s virtuoso typefaces for Fonderie Olive prompt a fresh look…
Through thick and thin: fashion and type
Issue 65, Autumn 2007
Fashion’s obsessions are mirrored in its typography, from Vogue’s femme serifs to butch Chanel and…
Grandiose gaiety
Issue 71, Spring 2009
Design is advertising #1: The whispering intruder
Issue 29, Autumn 1998
Advertising soaks into everything. It has become the texture of contemporary life. Graphic design…
Reputations: George Lois
Issue 29, Autumn 1998
‘You can’t research a big idea. The only ideas that truly research well are mediocre ideas. In…
Building a graphic language
Issue 28, Summer 1998
From the 1930s to the 1960s, The Architectural Review's eclectic methods made it a landmark in…
Reputations: Jean Widmer
Issue 34, Winter 1999
‘Signage reflects both the complexity of space and the way a place is organised. And it is very…
Reputations: Roman Cieslewicz
Issue 9, Summer 1993
‘Posters are dying out. They need strong themes, which at present they lack. As a form of…
Language unleashed
Issue 16, Spring 1995
Massin’s pioneering book designs of the 1960s used graphic devices to make the spoken word visible…
The meanings of type
Issue 50, Winter 2003
The back-stories, informed by trends, cults, philosophies and nationhood
Reputations: Alexander Liberman
Issue 10, Autumn 1993
‘I think the term “art director” is the greatest misnomer. There’s no art in magazines unless you…
Permanent innovation
Issue 19, Winter 1995
With his ‘livre objets’ for the French book clubs, Pierre Faucheux invented a new genre
Editorial Eye 65
Issue 65, Autumn 2007
A world of shape and flat colour
Issue 14, Autumn 1994
Have you ever really looked at this poster?
Issue 13, Summer 1994
A critical design history should explore the relationship of form, content and production, argues…
Recent blog posts by A. M. Cassandre
Offset 2014: day three
22 April 2014
Noted #58
14 February 2014
No pressure
15 April 2013
Significant others
12 October 2011
Berlin snapshots: Apfel Zet
19 January 2010