Feature: Illustration
Well fed in the West End
Ardizzone’s menus evoked a mid-century world of food-loving Londoners
Fry like a spy
The comic strip simplicity of Len Deighton’s Action Cook Book taught bachelors how to cook
Labelled with love
The new craft beers come in bottles, ideal for trendy bars and hipsters who want to display what they’re…
Process and poetry
Stranger & Stranger and Fernando Gutiérrez tell Paul Keers about the ways in which bottles and labels…
Raw like sushi
Alternative food zines scramble the conventions of magazine design to make a more authentic flavour
Comic cuts
Andreu Balius collects Spanish meat papers, which are typically covered in graphic images of animals who…
Told in pictures
Wordless picturebooks form a corner of children’s literature in which illustrators and artists tell…
Puffins on the plate
How the Russian revolution – plus new technology – led to a colourful and radical change in children’s…
Milan’s anarchic Modernist
Alessandro Colizzi explores the Futurist past of Bruno Munari, the eclectic, prolific…
Miss Fixit
Tina Roth Eisenberg never had a business plan. But all the things she dreams up – the Swissmiss blog…