Since its launch, the archive has grown into a resource used by designers, educators, students and researchers around the world. Design Reviewed has been featured by international design publications and cultural institutions, recommended as a graphic design history resource, used within university teaching and referenced in academic research.
This page brings together a selection of independent features, references and citations relating to Design Reviewed and its archive.
Press and Features
Design Week
Matt Lamont’s mission to save and celebrate graphic design history
April 2025
Design Week profiled the development of Design Reviewed, the collection behind it and the relationship between historical research and contemporary design practice.
The feature described Design Reviewed founder Matt Lamont as “one of the world’s leading graphic design collectors.”
Read the feature:
https://www.designweek.co.uk/matt-lamonts-mission-to-save-and-celebrate-graphic-design-history/
Design Museum Denmark
Graphic Design History with Collector Matt Lamont
Copenhagen, May 2025
Design Museum Denmark hosted a lecture and workshop exploring material from the Design Reviewed archive.
The museum described Design Reviewed as a platform connecting students and professionals with graphic design history and “a popular resource for design professionals around the globe.”
The event brought 100 original artefacts from the archive to Copenhagen for attendees to examine.
View the event:
https://designmuseum.dk/en/event/lecture-graphic-design-history-with-collector-matt-lamont/
Slanted
Design Reviewed—The Book
May 2026
German design publication Slanted featured the forthcoming Design Reviewed book, documenting the development of the archive and its collection of more than 10,000 graphic design artefacts.
The feature covers the archive’s magazines, books, posters and ephemera and the project to translate a century of material from the collection into a 400-page publication.
Read the feature:
https://www.slanted.de/design-reviewed-the-book/
Published in IDEA Magazine
Between 2023 and 2024, Design Reviewed was the subject of an eight-part series in Japanese graphic design publication IDEA.
Published as part of Design Eccentric: From the World Collectors’ Room, the series used material from the archive to explore designers, publications and graphic design history.
IDEA No. 401
The Design Reviewed Archive, Part 1
Text by Matt Lamont
Design by Kazuhiro Yamada
Translation by Manami Yamamoto
https://www.idea-mag.com/en/idea_magazine/idea-no-401/
IDEA No. 402
The Design Reviewed Archive, Part 2 — Ken Garland and the British Magazine Design
Text by Matt Lamont
Design by Kazuhiro Yamada
Translation by Manami Yamamoto
https://www.idea-mag.com/en/idea_magazine/idea-no-402/
IDEA No. 403
The Design Reviewed Archive, Part 3 — Wim Crouwel and the Stedelijk Museum
Text by Matt Lamont
Design by Kazuhiro Yamada
Translation by Manami Yamamoto
https://www.idea-mag.com/en/idea_magazine/idea-no-403/
IDEA No. 404
The Design Reviewed Archive, Part 4 — The Poster Designs of Karl Oskar Blase
Text by Matt Lamont
Design by Kazuhiro Yamada
Translation by Manami Yamamoto
IDEA No. 405
The Design Reviewed Archive, Part 5 — Designing History: The Legacy of Jan Bons
Text by Matt Lamont
Design by Kazuhiro Yamada + Akiko Takeo
Translation by Manami Yamamoto
IDEA No. 406
The Design Reviewed Archive, Part 6 — Gebrauchsgraphik: Almost a Century of Design Reference
Text by Matt Lamont
Design by Kazuhiro Yamada + Akiko Takeo
Translation by Manami Yamamoto
https://www.idea-mag.com/en/idea_magazine/idea-no-406/
IDEA No. 407
The Design Reviewed Archive, Part 7 — Willem Sandberg: Life and Legacy
Text by Matt Lamont
Design by Kazuhiro Yamada + Akiko Takeo
Translation by Manami Yamamoto
https://www.idea-mag.com/en/idea_magazine/idea-no-407/
IDEA No. 408
The Design Reviewed Archive, Part 8
Text by Matt Lamont
https://www.idea-mag.com/en/idea_magazine/no-408/
Research & Education
Design Reviewed is increasingly used as a reference point for the study of graphic design history.
The archive has appeared in university teaching and library resources and individual Design Reviewed records have been referenced in academic papers, dissertations and other research.
Rather than only directing readers to the archive as a whole, researchers increasingly cite individual artefacts and designer records, allowing material held by Design Reviewed to become part of wider research into visual and graphic design history.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Design Reviewed is recommended as an online resource within RIT’s library guide for GRDE 303 — The Untold History of Graphic Design.
The guide presents the archive as a resource providing designers, researchers and creatives with access to graphic design history.
Rochester Institute of Technology — GRDE 303 resources
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne Library includes Design Reviewed within its research resources for graphic design, describing it as an independently managed archive of graphic design artefacts that can be explored by decade.
University of Melbourne Library — Graphic Design research guide
https://unimelb.libguides.com/c.php?g=968519&p=7059474
Loyola University New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans includes Design Reviewed within its Art & Design research resources and digital image collections.
Loyola University New Orleans — Art & Design Research Guide
https://researchguides.loyno.edu/c.php?g=534006&p=10527743
Messiah University
Messiah University lists the Design Reviewed Archive among the research resources provided to students studying graphic design.
Messiah University — Graphic Design Research Guide
https://libguides.messiah.edu/art/graphicdesign
Laguna College of Art + Design
Laguna College of Art + Design includes Design Reviewed within its graphic design research resources and library resource directory, recognising the archive as a project dedicated to digitally preserving graphic design history.
LCAD — Graphic Design Research Resources
https://lcad.libguides.com/sb.php?subject_id=217487
Utah Tech University
Designreviewed.com has been included as a resource within the syllabus for ARTH 3750 — Graphic Design History at Utah Tech University.
Utah Tech University — course syllabi
https://academics.utahtech.edu/fall-syllabi-2025/
An Archive for Research
Design Reviewed continues to document graphic design through original magazines, books, posters, catalogues and printed ephemera.
Making these objects searchable and connecting them to their designers, publishers, countries, movements and periods allows individual artefacts to become useful starting points for further research.
The growing number of references to Design Reviewed in teaching, academic research and independent design writing demonstrates another purpose for the collection: not simply preserving graphic design, but putting its history back into use.
This page will continue to document independent references to Design Reviewed as they are discovered.
If you have referenced Design Reviewed in a publication, research paper, course or project, please get in touch.
Publishing & the Collection
Material from the Design Reviewed collection has also been reproduced in published books on graphic