Hands, Ears and Eyes. Humanism in Graphic Design in the 1950s and 1960s

In autumn 2020, I gave an online talk on humanism in graphic design in the 1950s and 1960s focusing on … More

Punky Samizdat

This essay was written for the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts in 2019 curated by Slavs and Tatars. ‘Idiots … More

This essay was commissioned for a new book on the posters of Andrzej Klimowski published by Self-Made Hero in 2018. … More

These installation shots in Poster Museum at Wilanów were provided by Podpunkt, the excellent studio which designed the show and the … More

Extracts from a longer essay exploring the future of the poster which will be published in Warsaw in June 2016 … More

This is a draft version of a short essay which will appear in a book accompanying ‘The Sixties: A Worldwide … More

This short text appears in the catalogue of the International Poster Biennale which opened in Warsaw in June 2014. I was … More

This review was published in Eye magazine in summer 2013 ♦ Just over a hundred years ago the music business experienced … More

In Eastern Europe before 1989, the state held a near-monopoly on all forms of public expression. Censors wielding red pencils … More

In many science fiction films of the Cold War period the cosmos is represented as an extra-terrestrial space in which … More