Design and designers

Objects, and the people who decided what they should look like. Rams on why almost everything is too loud, the Vignellis on a lifetime spent inside one grid, Kevin McCloud watching people run out of money, and a full hour on a typeface. The good ones stop the built world being invisible.

• Objectified (2009) ★★
• Rams (2018) ★★★
• Design Is One: The Vignellis (2012) ★
• Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight (2008) ★
• Art and Copy (2009) ★
• Grand Designs (1999 - present) ★★★
• Eames: Architect and Painter (2011) ★
• Helvetica (2007) ★★★
• Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2003) ★★★
• Great Lighthouses of Ireland (2019) ★★★
• Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2023) ★