Review: Typography
Faenza mon amour
Faenza is a pleasant little medieval Italian town with a name meaning ‘glazed…
Swiss fresh air
This modest book is the first to cover the long career of Swiss graphic designer…
An old-fashioned alien invasion
They Live: A Visual and Cultural Awakening is an exploration of John Carpenter’s…
Easy reading
Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…
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…