Review: Illustration
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…
Captain litho
Barnett Freedman (1901-56) was an artist / designer from a Jewish immigrant family…
Seaside splendour
Eclectic, yet streamlined by design. It is perhaps unsurprising that Art Deco is…
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and…
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd is Professor of Art and American Culture Studies at Washington University…
File under undefined
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) spent most of his life trying to remain uncategorised and…
Paranoia in the void
The selection of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina for the Man Booker longlist – the first time a…
Signs of the times
Every few years or so, a choice handful of illustrator / designers make a splash on…