Paper Architecture: The Columbaria of Brodsky and Utkin

 This essay appeared in the catalogue for the Postmodernism. Style and Subversion 1970-90 Exhibition at the V&A Museum in London … More

Living Design

This is an introduction to the work of various designers and artists that can be described as ‘transhuman’. It is … More

LOOKING FOR THE COMMON GROUND: THE 13TH VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

 This piece was commissioned by Space magazine. It appears in the magazine’s October 2012 issue. Each Venice Architecture Biennale is … More

The Quiet American

This piece appeared in the September 2012 issue of Creative Review. It discusses Unit Editions’ new book on Lubalin – … More

Symposium on Zoos in Central Europe in London in mid September organised by Eszter Steierhoffer

Seeing Japan, Imagining Poland: Polish Art and the Russo-Japanese War

This piece was first published in 2008 ♦ On first inspection it seems unlikely that the interests of Polish artists … More

An Essay on Decay

This article appeared in the first issue of Disegno in 2011. ♦ Earlier this year the mummified body of a … More

The Dark Side of the Modern Home

This is an extract of an essay published in Sparke, Massey, Keeble and Martin, eds., Designing the Modern Interior (Berg, 2009) … More

Dan Perjovschi: The Power of the Margins

The international art world ‘discovered’ Dan Perjovschi in 1999 when his drawings were displayed in the Romanian Pavilion at the … More

Writing Design: The History of Design Criticism in the UK since the 1960s

This essay appeared in the book published to accompany Communicate! British Independent Graphic Design since the 1960s, an exhibition curated … More