Review: Visual culture
Elegantly nerdish
Cuneiform (the name means ‘wedge-shaped’) was, as far as these things can be…
Master of the minimal
When did logos begin? The wordmarks and symbols of Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s…
California is a state of mind
Rendered, on the cover of Metropolis’s American edition, in iridescent foil and set…
Learning from Ladybird
For any member of the generations who grew up with Ladybird Books, the mini-hardback…
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and…
Freestyling text and image
As a second-year undergraduate student at Reading in the early 1990s, I was shown the…
Book of revelations
The uncontroversial premise of Multiple Signatures is that design is a collaborative…
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or…
Absent insights
By its title, L’Écartelage reveals its focus on Surrealism in the work of Pierre…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is…