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A two-volume book packed with graphic design history is a visual blockbuster, but does little for…

A close relative’s colour slides show a densely layered record of everyday life. Photo Critique by…

Volume one of Anna Atkins’ beautiful study of British algae, issued in 1843, was the first ever…

The tradition of the painted still life has been reinvented by contemporary photographers with…

Emigre’s Rudy VanderLans explores the clotted terrain of Tokyo’s Shibuya and Shinjuku districts…

An artful book of deliberately torn, anonymous photographs from the Cold War era leaves many…

A recent edition of Aperture examines the enduring affinity between two art forms. Photo Critique by…

Set to minimalist techno, Arthur Jafa’s APEX is a cycle of images that illuminate the condition of…

Even Don McCullin expressed doubts about his photographs of war and suffering. What is their…

Alex Prager’s ravishing tableaux mix glamour and unease. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

When petrol replaced coal, the island of Hashima lost its purpose and slowly decayed. Rick Poynor…

Photography records with startling accuracy. Why use it to create non-representational images?…

Diane Arbus’s unsparing images retain their power to discomfit. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

By choosing colour over black-and-white, Joel Meyerowitz pioneered a new type of American street…

Andreas Gursky’s photographs, manipulated like digital paintings, have spectacular impact. But…

A book of informal interviews with Henri Cartier-Bresson is testament to a great photographer’s…

David King’s posters integrated type and image with power and uncompromising political commitment.…

A busy blockbuster traces the stunning history of Japanese photobooks. Photo Critique by Rick…

Alec Soth’s photographic journey along the Mississippi merges the documentary with the poetic.…

Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti with handwritten typographic treatments made striking, almost…

Mysterious equipment, unknown officials and arcane activities combine in a photobook that is…

A familiar domestic nuisance provides the theme for this ambiguous and labyrinthine exhibition.…

Mike Halliwell’s montages illustrate J. G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition with a flair that…

Girl on Girl – a new survey of 40 contemporary photographers – raises questions about the nature…

For photographer Sergio Larrain (1931-2012), making pictures was a form of spiritual quest. Photo…

For more than a decade, Ruth Artmonsky has been publishing modest, readable books about design and…

‘We love collecting vernacular … it’s functional, not following a preconceived idea of what is…

Camera in hand, Harry Pearce dives into the urban underbelly in search of the unfathomable. Photo…

‘The Radical Eye’, the superstar’s opulently framed collection of modernist photography, is a…

Photographs challenge norms of female sexuality, beauty and domesticity. The first in a new series…

Boris Bućan’s early posters display an audacity that challenges divisions between graphic design…

A new shop demonstrates the global resurgence of indie magazines. Critique by Rick Poynor

Barcelona’s new Museu del Disseny shows how design can claim a space for itself. Critique by Rick…

Another Way of Telling, by John Berger and Jean Mohr, extends the possibilities of the…

Hispanic photomonteur Josep Renau aimed Technicolor jets of scorn at the mirage of US consumerist…

Though intended to make its contents ‘democratic’, art website The Space is a perplexing jumble.…

Canongate has reissued John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man, about Gloucestershire doctor…

Adam Michaels and Prem Krishnamurthy of Project Projects bring deep cultural engagement to every…

As editorial design becomes more predictable, Swedish feminist quarterly Bang kicks against visual…

Aperture’s new series of photography books may prove to be an essential educational resource for…

An illustrated ‘gift book’ dictionary by Heretic brings Marcel Duchamp’s ideas to a wider…

The reworked press photos now being discarded are unique objects and compellingly strange images.…

David Campany’s examination of Walker Evans’ freewheeling magazine work – for Fortune…

Visual Editions’ box of literary maps challenges authors to think differently about the structures…

For ‘place hackers’, subversive and daredevil urban explorers, photography validates a search for…

Eduardo Paolozzi’s gifts as a collagist have been neglected by the worlds of both art and design.…

From the cool alienation of colour to the directness of black and white – Rick Poynor reflects on…

Recently discovered posters for the RCA Film Society provide fresh perspective on the intimate…

Rebranding ITV was meant to generate a warm glow – not the heated reaction it received from…

A third edition of Redheaded Peckerwood, Christian Patterson’s ravishing photobook, gives this…

These short films throw new light on the eccentric collaboration between 1960s film-maker /…

In the first of a new series of Photo Critiques, Rick Poynor examines The Latin American Photobook…

Barry Deck’s Template Gothic is vernacular in inspiration and futuristic in effect. Is it a…

Sława Harasymowicz’s first foray into graphic novels illuminates a Freudian case history with…

J. G. Ballard’s novel resists attempts to summarise it with a single image

The authentic spirit of Surrealism lives on – in projects based on curious collections that…

Motif, edited by Ruari McLean, was a quirky mix of art and illustration, with its roots in graphic…

Metahaven makes visual proposals that suggest a new role for graphic design in public life

Now we are deluged with more images than ever, we have lost faith in the power of the photo to…

In 1960s France, Henry Cohen’s inventive photographic covers made Gallimard’s Idées series…

Fritz Kahn commissioned illustrators to realise his surreal pedagogical vision – mechanical…

‘It’s to do with meaning, which forces its way up like a root growing under a pavement – it…

Mambo theology

Does this Brisbane studio offer a role model for socially concerned design? [EXTRACT]

Why Not Associates are the wild boys of the British typographic scene … How do they get away with…

Advertising soaks into everything. It has become the texture of contemporary life. Graphic design…

‘I don’t think anything designed should be considered as art. It’s not only about the…

‘This is a post-design era. It’s deliberately going against all those things that were canonised…

Zurich designer Cornel Windlin is a fluent graphic stylist and a playful manipulator of…

Mark Farrow’s minimalist graphics have won him a place in the profession’s mainstream usually…

Paul Elliman tells his students that “everything you know is wrong”, embracing error to find…

Three books showing accidental collages of torn posters an other random marks revive interest in a…

Surrealism’s relationship with graphic design is still strangely unfulfilled

Herbert Spencer’s magazine, a fusion of Modernism and eclecticism, was one of the most remarkable…

When Donald Wall made this book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a…

Philip Thompson and Peter Davenport’s visual analysis of the graphic cliche is a design classic

Romek Marber’s 1960s paperback identity is a landmark of independent British design

‘Helvetica has become the generic default, a safe formula under the guise of Modernism. It’s all…

As designer, writer and educator, Jeffery Keedy is a committed proponent of postmodernism

For thirty years Edward Fella was a commercial artist. In his sketchbooks, he applies his mastery…

‘I don’t believe in revolutionary design, but I do believe that reactionary designs exist. It’s…