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A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours
The Other Side, a new book on design and Brexit, says little of note about either. The Other Side: An Emotional Map of Brexit Britain is...
Work is a Four-Letter Word
Too many designers now want to re-educate the masses. The recent launch of a group called Designers for Extinction Rebellion may seem at...
Rusholme Ruffians
The dissolution of the Art School? ‘The New Art School Rules!’ – part of Design Manchester 19 Festival – is an exhibition of 121...
Miserable Lie
The London Olympics Posters were not really ‘posters’ at all. Same for Paul Smith's pose for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. My initial...
What She Said
The Graphic Design Reader, Eds Teal Triggs and Leslie Atzmon, Bloomsbury. Teal Triggs’ and Leslie Atzmon’s The Graphic Design Reader...
Accept Yourself
This essay was first written in 2000 for the design anthology Becoming Designers. When should you shut-up and let people have their own...
Death of a Disco Dancer
Judging by this digital project, perhaps reports of the death of the poster have been greatly exaggerated. For four weeks this summer...
The Queen is Dead
Josef Hartwig’s 1922 chess set design shows us the way. Form follows function. The oft-quoted, much misunderstood dictum associated with...
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