Review: Information design
Magic and logic
How do you tell the story of the way graphic design actually gets done? Two books…
Max’s life is all mapped out
This book is about far more than Leslie MacDonald Gill (better known as Max) and can…
Data storytelling in late Victorian London
The design community is currently fascinated by data storytelling. Everyone wants to design visual tales…
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
Signs of street life
At a time when many of us know our location all too well, having been…
Minard’s retirement plans
Sandra Rendgen’s The Minard System re-contextualises in book form for the first time the entire…
Information and emancipation
This book brings to light an audacious moment in the long career of civil rights…
Japanese traces
This winter, the Tokyo exhibition ‘Fragments of Graphism: An Alternative History of Graphic Design in…
Health redrawn
Graphic design plays a part in almost every area of our daily lives. But can…
Inspired information
In her 2014 book Graphesis Johanna Drucker describes information visualisations as ‘intellectual Trojan horses’ –…