What We're Reading: Red Book
by Sarah Zimmerman
What’s black and white and red all over? David Shrigley’s latest read, Red Book. The hard-to-miss bright red paperback is a continuation of Shrigley’s pokerfaced scrawls depicting everyday observations, thoughts and some not-so-common comments on life’s little adventures....
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Remaindered: Typography Papers 8
by Paul Shaw
Typography Papers 8 does not tell the whole story of British graphic design after World War II—but it tells a story worth hearing, a story that focuses more on politics than aesthetics....
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Drawn In
by Caitlin Dover
So many fine-art books are designed in such a staid, expected way that a book like One Thousand Drawings comes as a treat and a surprise....
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Regular Features
by Caitlin Dover
I’m exactly the wrong person to review Sarah Stolfa’s book of photographs, The Regulars. Her portraits of patrons at a Philadelphia dive are simply candy to someone like me who loves any portrait—a blurry iPhone snap, a 17th-century Dutch likeness—better than any other kind of picture....
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What a Gentleman!
by Peter Terzian
IN 2006, THE BRITISH designer David Gentleman blanketed London’s Parliament Square with 1,000 large paper cards, each one holding 100 splatters of blood-red ink. This installation, a protest...
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Wildfire and Frezno
by Colin Berry
Print contributing editor Colin Berry reviews Wildfire, a photography book of burned-out California locales, and Frezno, an unblinking look...
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