Review: Illustration
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…
Body of work
In our digital age, when every image is available and mutable, when pornography is…
Signs of the times
Every few years or so, a choice handful of illustrator / designers make a splash on…
Paranoia in the void
The selection of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina for the Man Booker longlist – the first time a…
Anglo-Saxon latitudes
The London transport maps designed by MacDonald (Max) Gill can be regarded as sitting…
From cover to cover
Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a…
The art of small moments
To call Chris Ware a genius seems obvious, banal, almost. So much praise has been…
Party people
‘Made In North Korea’ (House of Illustration, London, 26 March–13 May 2018) is a…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that…