Finally, finally, a gap to write our review of the year. We’ve had quite a few emails with thoughts and nominations, along with some thoughts of our own. So, let’s …

Most of the autumn is spent agonising over ‘the Christmas Card’ in design studios worldwide. We too were agonising until we realised that we should take the easy way out …

Over fifteen years ago a shockwave was sent through graphics as designers put two fingers up to the ‘big idea’/’problem-solving’ tradition and turned to self-expression. They proclaimed the processes they …

Hello loyal readers, we are slightly caught in the Iam-Hi-Bix storm (that’s 'I Absolutely Must Have It Before It's Xmas’, in case you’re wondering). But the Review of the Year …

Over the last few months there have been recurring phrases in cyberspace. Have you noticed? There’s the tendency for various writers to ‘˜take a break’, or to profess to writer’s …

One of the johnson banks team has just returned from a fortnight in Brazil. Briefed to ‘take some cool pics of weird Brazilian type’ here’s just a few of the …

About this time last year we published a Review of the Year during a period of lazy-make-a-list-and-go-home-early journalism. It was oddly popular, predicted several mainstream design trends and even tipped …

The current exhibition running at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in South London on the late US illustrator Saul Steinberg has inspired us to dig out some of his classics and …

The economic gloom seemed to affect last night’s Design Week Benchmark Awards judges, who only managed to find winners in just over half of their categories. Still, it was nice …

We’ve received some images of our latest project in Japan, an umbrella design for the Creation Gallery in Tokyo. Every year they ask us and many other artists (mainly Japanese) …