Review: Graphic design
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a…
Don’t judge a book by its title
Never judge a book by its title. If I had done that, I would never have opened Never…
Party people
‘Made In North Korea’ (House of Illustration, London, 26 March–13 May 2018) is a…
Relics of a vanished world
‘It’s all about nostalgia now,’ writes Malcolm Garrett in his introduction to…
No fixed style
Among British independent record companies, Mute Records, founded in 1978 by…
Japanese traces
This winter, the Tokyo exhibition ‘Fragments of Graphism: An Alternative History of…
Health redrawn
Graphic design plays a part in almost every area of our daily lives. But can it…
A 2D man comes to life
The subtitle, ‘A Graphic Memoir’, of this gutsy new book by designer Paul Sahre is a…
Swiss style: the prequel
It all started with a letter that Dorothea Hofmann sat down to write to Philip B.…
A sharp eye for Brazilian design
The short title of this exhibition – ‘Brasil Hoje’ [Brazil Today] – gives an idea of…