Review
Museums on display
The academic study of design history is one that has only emerged within the past 50…
From magic lanterns to virtual reality
In her preface, Maureen Furniss tells it how it was: ‘In twenty years of teaching…
Non-wooly mammoth
There are few publications that can boast the depth of resource, aspiration and…
A life in grafix
Here’s a fantastic, heavy, extraordinary 374-page book whose ten chapters chart the…
A treat for Tschichold aficionados
These two books will delight aficionados of Jan Tschichold, the German typographer…
Public art for public art’s sake
Scott King’s Public Art blends fact and fiction, satire and speculation in a critique…
Bauhäuslers at rest and play
When we think of the photographic experiments of the 1920s, what immediately comes to…
Street haunting
Ghost signs have long been popular as landmarks, historical devices, ornaments and…
Swiss grit and graft
Dafi Kühne is a design polymath, a man of many and often contrasting ideas, styles…
Paradise debunked
The consensus among designers is that the middle of the last century was the golden…