ESSAYS IN BOOKS

Designing Art in Herbert Matter. Designer, Image-Maker, ECAL University Press, Forthcoming, 2026

The Art of Photographics in Herbert Matter. Designer, Image-Maker, ECAL University Press, Forthcoming, 2026

‘The Museum Poster as Design History’ in Self-Promotion/Poster Collection 30 – Museum Fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Lars Muller Press, 2018

‘Helvetica’ in Iconic Designs, Berg Press, 2014

‘Mind that Child’ in Photoworks, Issue 19, (Autumn 2014)

‘Herbert Matter’ in 100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design, Lars Muller Press, 2014

‘Photo-Graphics: A History of photography and design in Swiss Graphics in 100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design, Lars Muller, 2014

Alphabet & Image in Writing and Research for Graphic Designers: A Designer’s Manual to Strategic Communication and Presentation, Rockport Publishers, 2013

‘Beethoven’ (1955–59), ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ (1934 – 1958), ‘Times New Roman’ (1931), ‘Watch That Child!’, (1953), ‘Lufthansa Otl Aicher’ (1957), ‘Neue Grafik’ (1958 – 1965), ‘Fortune Magazine’, (1930), ‘All Roads Lead to Switzerland’ (1935). Entries in The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, Phaidon Press, 2012

‘The Graphic language of The Prisoner’, in I [Heart] Design, Rotovision Press, 2011

Extended captions in Steve McCurry: In the Shadow of the Mountains, Phaidon Press, 2007

‘Alexey Brodovitch: Ballet’ in The Education of a Photographer, Allworth Press, 2006

‘From Riff-Raff to Nil-by-Mouth: Reimagining the Working Class’ in Looking at Class: Film, Television and the Working Class in Britain, Rivers Oram Press, 2001

SELECTED ESSAYS

The “Design Event”: The Anti-Design-Historian and a Poetics of the Object, Design & Culture, Vol. 8, March, 2015

‘Wim Crouwel’, Eye Magazine, No. 79, 2011

‘Great Magazine’, Baseline Magazine, No. 59, 2011

‘Frozen Fire’, Eye Magazine, No. 77, 2010

‘Project Projects’, Grafik Magazine, No.182, 2010

‘Interview with Massimo Vignelli’, Grafik Magazine, No. 181, 2009

‘Olympic Pictograms’, Grafik Magazine, No.179, 2009

‘Life Class’, Grafik Magazine, No.177, 2009

‘The Art of Psychographics’, Baseline Magazine, No.55, 2009 (ed. version also published on http://www.designobserver.com, 9/10/09)

‘Exhibiting Martin Klimas’, Grafik Magazine, Summer, 2008

‘Previous Arrangements’, Grafik Magazine, Summer, 2008

‘British Football Programmes’, Baseline Magazine, No.53, 2007

‘Thackeray’s Alphabet’, Baseline Magazine, No. 51, 2007

‘Alphabet & Image’, Baseline Magazine, No.50, 2006

‘Herbert Matter: The Art of Photo-Graphics’ Baseline Magazine, No.49, 2006

‘Herbert Matter: The Crafty Linotyper’, Eye Magazine, Spring, 2005

‘Westvaco: Inspirations for Printers, Baseline Magazine, No. 47, 2005

‘Camera’, Baseline Magazine, No. 46, 2004

‘Josef Müller-Brockmann’, Exhibition catalogue, Image Now Gallery, Dublin, 2004

‘Weegee’ Black and White Photography Magazine, October, 2003

SELECTED REVIEWS

Weegee: Serial Photographer, Source Magazine, Spring 2019

The grip of American Modernism, Eye Magazine, Eye Blog, June 2012

The Poster King, Eye Magazine, No.81, Autumn 2011

50 Most influential graphic designers, Eye Magazine, No. 77, Autumn, 2010

Modern British Posters, Eye Magazine, No. 77, Autumn, 2010

Lanfranco Bombelli, Eye Magazine, No. 76, Summer, 2010

Exposed, Eye Magazine, (Eye Blog), 16 July, 2010

We English by Simon Roberts, Grafik Magazine, No.186, 2010

Northern Soul: The Work of John Bulmer, Grafik Magazine No.184, 2010

Dieter Rams, Grafik Magazine, No. 181, 2010

Mariscal: Drawing Life, Grafik Magazine, No.179. 2009

‘Jan Van Toorn’, Baseline Magazine, No. 55, 2008

‘Design’s Delight’, Eye Magazine, Spring, 2007

‘From Left to Right: The Cultural Shift From Words to Pictures’, Eye

Magazine, Winter 2006

‘Ideas Have Legs’, Eye Magazine, Winter 2006

‘From Gutenberg to Open Type’, Eye Magazine, Autumn, 2006

‘Swiss Graphic Design’, Eye Magazine, Summer, 2006

‘Design: Edward Bawden & Eric Ravilious’, Eye Magazine, Summer, 2006

‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’, Eye Magazine, Winter, 2005

‘Robert Brownjohn: Sex & Typography’, Eye Magazine, Winter, 2005

‘U & lc’, Eye Magazine, Autumn, 2005

‘Massive Change’, Eye Magazine, Summer 2005

‘Type Now’, Eye Magazine, Summer 2005

‘Magnum Photo Stories’, Eye Magazine, Spring 2005

‘Path finder: A Way Through Swiss Graphix’, Eye Magazine, Autumn, 2003

‘Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers’, Eye Magazine, Summer, 2003