Review: Reviews
Easy reading
Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…
File under undefined
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) spent most of his life trying to remain uncategorised and…
A century of no, No, NO
An air of discontent has been fomenting in the US since the turmoil of the 2016…
Waste not
For many years Vaughan Oliver was the in-house designer for the 4AD record label…
Action to the word
Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch Posters…
Rules of engagement
Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…
The heart and soul of Harlem
The black-and-white Esquire photo
of 57 jazz musicians (plus a few local children)…
Body of work
In our digital age, when every image is available and mutable, when pornography is…
Shock and oral history
Ian Birch’s Uncovered: Revolutionary Magazine Covers is an entertaining browse…
Paranoia in the void
The selection of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina for the Man Booker longlist – the first time a…