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Observer: A Report from the Place Formerly Known as Graphic Design
by Rick Poynor
I am in a darkened room queuing behind other people at the back of a building that was once an air-raid shelter in Amsterdam’s Vondelpark. We have been instructed to pick up a torch from a basket and look around, but there are so many people pressed into the small space that all the torches have already been taken....
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Design as Dictator
by Rick Poynor
Technology is turning us into switchboard operators in the communication networks of our own lives, and graphic design is implicated every step of the way. Why does everything have to arrive through a screen? Why not try rejecting the templated experiences, the social media, and the patronizing attempts to involve us in prescribed interactions?...
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The Complex Bonds Between Design and Surrealism
by Rick Poynor
Surrealism has never received much attention in relation to graphic design. Where design histories touch on it, they rightly tend to see its adoption in promotion and advertising, in the 1930s, as a dilution. ... What's fascinating are cases where a designer or graphic artist connects in a more personal, direct, and continuous way to surrealist aims and image-making. A look at the the work of Elliott Earls, M/M Paris, Josef Vylet’al, and Jan Svankmajer....
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Observer: Melt in Your Mouth
by Rick Poynor
Robert Opie’s obsession with packaging began as a teenager when he was traveling in Scotland and bought a pack of Mackintosh’s Munchies, a chocolate-covered sweet with a caramel and biscuit center, from a vending machine....
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Observer: Counter Points
by Rick Poynor
A 1970s debate between two masters illuminates the necessity of a little friction in design now and again....
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Observer: Warm Regards
by Rick Poynor
Now that the public is ready to hear it, how will graphic designers shape the discourse about climate change?...
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Observer: Easy Writer
by Rick Poynor
Rick Poynor tackles the journalism standards lacking in the latest design blogs....
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