Review: Typography
Easy reading
Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…
An old-fashioned alien invasion
They Live: A Visual and Cultural Awakening is an exploration of John Carpenter’s…
Rules of engagement
Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…
Anglo-Saxon latitudes
The London transport maps designed by MacDonald (Max) Gill can be regarded as sitting…
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…
Relics of a vanished world
‘It’s all about nostalgia now,’ writes Malcolm Garrett in his introduction to…
Japanese traces
This winter, the Tokyo exhibition ‘Fragments of Graphism: An Alternative History of…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that…
Elusive characters
On the surface, Marcel’s Letters is a fascinating story. Once you dig a little…