These installation shots in Poster Museum at Wilanów were provided by Podpunkt, the excellent studio which designed the show and the … More
Category: Design/Critique
An Essay on Decay
This article appeared in the first issue of Disegno in 2011. ♦ Earlier this year the mummified body of a … More
Two books on Polish graphic design …
Against All Odds. Polish Graphic Design 1919-1949 (also published in Polish as Nie gęsi. Polskie projektowanie graficzne 1919–1949) by Piotr … More
A spectre haunts the world and it is the spectre of migration
This review appears in Frieze, November 2011. ♦ In recent years Studio Formafantasma – Italian designers, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone … More
Any colour .. as long as it’s black
Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art – in its temporary location of a socmodernist furniture store – is, appropriately enough, hosting … More
Boiling the City
At the Łódź Design Festival last weekend, I saw this exercise in data visualisation and sonification. Culling data pulled from … More
Progressing Backwards
This piece was written for Thomas Thwaites to appear in a publication about his Toaster Project. It will stay posted … More
Well Mannered Anarchists: The Design Research Unit
Written for Creative Review, this piece looked at the career of the ‘DESIGN RESEARCH UNIT’, the subject of an exhibition … More