Andy Martin

Blog posts by Andy Martin

Where do ideas come from?

23 April 2020
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Visual culture

A mischievous book by Claes Oldenburg showed me the importance of realising an idea physically, writes Andy Martin
I first came across Notes in Hand in the mid-1970s, when I was a freshly…

Type Tuesday. Baby love

13 March 2012
Book design, Design history, Typography, Visual culture

Andy Martin and his affection for the Studio Book of Alphabets
Sometime in the early 1950s (before even I was born) my old man bought a…