Review
Adventures in the book trade
Printing R-Evolution’ has been an unexpected public success, confounding expectations…
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…
Minard’s retirement plans
Sandra Rendgen’s The Minard System re-contextualises in book form for the first time…
File under undefined
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) spent most of his life trying to remain uncategorised and…
A century of no, No, NO
An air of discontent has been fomenting in the US since the turmoil of the 2016…
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd is Professor of Art and American Culture Studies at Washington University…
Hard-working hooligans
Scan the pages of recent graphic design history, and its coverage of the…
Information and emancipation
This book brings to light an audacious moment in the long career of civil rights…