Review
One hundred years new
Jeremy Aynsley’s Graphic Design in Germany 1890-1945 was published almost twenty…
Thinking machine
In the vestibule of Level G at the Barbican a man stands before a large black screen.…
In search of dialogue
The Design Observer (DO) blog was launched in 2003 by William Drenttel, Jessica…
Where was Weimar?
The era of the Weimar Republic, which emerged in Germany in the wake of the First…
Design odyssey
Stanley Kubrick (1928-99) has long been the ultimate designers’ director, a man who…
One lifetime is not enough
If you are not familiar with the joyous work of designer Gere Kavanaugh, one look at…
A new world of worlds
‘What would it take to construct a non-Eurocentric design imagination?’ This is the…
Yes we can change
The design world is full of international festivals: D&AD, Ladfest, AGI Open, Semi…
Encyclopedic ambitions
English-language historical surveys of illustration have been undertaken on both…
The advocacy of Tschichold
As Paul Stirton, the curator of ‘Jan Tschichold and the New Typography’ readily…