Opinion: Book design

 
Michael Wolff, seagull

Michael Wolff, seagull

Book design, Brand madness, Front matter

He recruited birds and foxes into branding. Now his close collaborators have made a book of his work. By Simon Esterson
 
Ambiguity blues

Ambiguity blues

Book design, Information design

A graphically illustrated art project reflects our uneasy relationship with the truth. Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Los Angeles’ lost palace of treasures

Los Angeles’ lost palace of treasures

Book design, Design history, Information design, Critique / Photography

Using photographic evidence, designer Mark Nelson has reconstructed one of the great twentieth-century art collections. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Godard becomes ‘Godard’

Godard becomes ‘Godard’

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

In 1961, the new wave director posed for a German fashion photographer. The publicity pictures that followed are as self-reflexive as his films. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Streets without people

Streets without people

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

Emigre’s Rudy VanderLans explores the clotted terrain of Tokyo’s Shibuya and Shinjuku districts with the eye of a graphic designer
 
Relentless riches

Relentless riches

Book design, Graphic design, Photography, Critique / Photography, Front matter

A busy blockbuster traces the stunning history of Japanese photobooks. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Graphic language of the wall

Graphic language of the wall

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti with handwritten typographic treatments made striking, almost punkish paperback covers for Le Livre de Poche
 
Depth and ambiguity

Depth and ambiguity

Book design, Photography, Visual culture

Another Way of Telling, by John Berger and Jean Mohr, extends the possibilities of the photographic narrative. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Words and pictures talking

Words and pictures talking

Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Photography, Typography, Critique / Photography

Canongate has reissued John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man, about Gloucestershire doctor John Sassall. How does it compare with the 1967 original? Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Energy and emotion

Energy and emotion

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

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