Review: Book design
Max’s life is all mapped out
This book is about far more than Leslie MacDonald Gill (better known as Max) and can be…
Drawn from the capital
London can be a hard city to love, but David Gentleman always finds good reasons, which are…
Pictoglyphic time travel
If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention…
Cinematic storyteller
I am not sure when I began to understand what graphic design was, or that I might…
Data storytelling in late Victorian London
The design community is currently fascinated by data storytelling. Everyone wants…
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and…
An old-fashioned alien invasion
They Live: A Visual and Cultural Awakening is an exploration of John Carpenter’s…
Adventures in the book trade
Printing R-Evolution’ has been an unexpected public success, confounding expectations…
Hard-working hooligans
Scan the pages of recent graphic design history, and its coverage of the…
Easy reading
Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…