Feature: Book design
In memoriam: Martin Lee (1941-2025)
Richard Smith pays tribute to a print production maestro who understood graphic designers as well as he understood printers and printing
Jacket required
A love of reading gives Jon Gray’s book
covers their edge. By Robert Hanks [EXTRACT]
Time stretched further out
We made this: Punkt’s design for David Sylvian’s photobook ERR
Mark Holt: Games, set and dispatch
The title page credit for Munich ’72: The Visual Output of Otl Aicher’s Dept XI reads ‘Researched, written, edited, designed and published by Mark Holt.’ Interview by John L. Walters
A niche of a niche
CentreCentre is the imprint founded by British designer Patrick Fry
Crowd control
Designers are making illustrated books through crowdfunding instead of traditional publishing methods. By John L. Walters
Evi O. Studio: Feast between the lines
This Sydney-based studio brings high-energy illustration and lettering to editorial design for food [EXTRACT]
Elaine Ramos: The book designer
‘We overdose on communication, but “beautiful” design circulates only between the culturally literate.’
Everyday people
Emma Thomas and Kirsty Carter’s Apfel, A Practice for Everyday Life, brings design into the art world, and makes design an art
Two cheers for publishing
A two-volume book packed with graphic design history is a visual blockbuster, but does little for scholarship. By Rick Poynor