Category: Reviews

Paul Shaw|Reviews

Standard Deviations: Types and Families in Contemporary Design

When the Museum of Modern Art decided, at the beginning of this year, to expand its purview and include typefaces, it was a moment of celebration. However, the feeling of elation quickly gave way to puzzlement.

Julie Lasky|Reviews

If at First You Don't Succeed, Pat Yourself on the Back

Review of Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries

Julie Lasky|Reviews

Design Indaba 2011

Review of Design Indaba 2011 conference in Cape Town, South Africa

Ernest Beck|Reviews

Mensch at Work

Review of The Power of Pro Bono

Adrian Shaughnessy|Reviews

Down in the Trenches with Kenneth FitzGerald

Adrian Shaughnessy reviews of Kenneth FitzGerald’s new book Volume: Writing on Graphic Design, Music, Art and Culture.

Alexandra Lange|Reviews

How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Eameses?

Alexandra Lange reviews the book The Story of Eames Furniture, by Marilyn Neuhart with John Neuhart (Gestalten, 2010).

Mark Lamster|Reviews

Boom Goes Pop

Mark Lamster reviews Irma Boom's book, Irma Boom — Biography in Books.

Alexandra Lange|Reviews

Uncommon Ground

Exhibition review of "Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement," Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Michael Erard|Reviews

It’s the 16th Ed. of the Chicago Manual of Style and I Feel Fine

Michael Erard reviews the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.

Jessica Helfand|Reviews

Viva The Villain: A Review of Despicable Me

In an age in which last week’s Bernie Madoff is next week’s BP oil spill, villains are no longer the stuff of fiction. So when a really juicy fictional villain comes along — let alone two — it’s time to go to …

Ernest Beck|Reviews

Edward Koren in Retrospect

Essay on The New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren.

Jessica Helfand|Reviews

Rome’s MAXXI: Force Field as Field Space

The MAXXI center in Rome opens with a glorious, international exhibition and showcases a building that is likely to be as controversial — and as celebrated — as its designer.