Thames & Hudson went to Paris recently for a major retrospective of the work of a modern legend in the world of commercial art, Jean-Paul Goude. And so to the coolest show in Paris this winter: Jean-Paul Goude’s retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. As we knew he would, Goude has finally been invited [...]
Taken from Edmund de Waal’s collection of Netsukes Anyone who has read Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes will know that the author has a particularly powerful way of describing objects. ‘Edmund de Waal’s writing has done for touch,’ wrote one reviewer, ‘what Proust’s did for taste.’ Edmund describes the history of his [...]
Wim Crouwel at the Design Museum © Luke Hayes Wim Crouwel is a giant among graphic designers, long recognized in the Netherlands (where designers enjoy high status). For the first time we are treated to a major exhibition in London devoted to this master typographer. He is the inventor of the typeface New Alphabet (that [...]
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