This piece appeared in the September 2012 issue of Creative Review. It discusses Unit Editions’ new book on Lubalin – … More
Category: Graphic Design
Writing Design: The History of Design Criticism in the UK since the 1960s
This essay appeared in the book published to accompany Communicate! British Independent Graphic Design since the 1960s, an exhibition curated … More
Writing about Heroes
This short piece was commissioned in 2011 but not published. It is a set of reflections on how and why … More
Two books on Polish graphic design …
Against All Odds. Polish Graphic Design 1919-1949 (also published in Polish as Nie gęsi. Polskie projektowanie graficzne 1919–1949) by Piotr … More
Roman Cieślewicz, Changement de Climat, 1976-77
In the 1970s Cieślewicz turned his scalpel on the magazines which had given him employment in Paris in the 1960s. … More
Dlouhý’s ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’ (occasional notes on posters)
Bedřich Dlouhý was an occasional poster artist and book designer. Better known as a surrealist painter and a member of … More
Cieślewicz’s ‘Forefather’s Eve’ (occasional notes on posters)
This poster produced by Roman Cieślewicz in 1967 has become an iconic image in the history of the People’s Republic of Poland. Designed … More
Machines Should Work, People Should Think
IBM commissioned Jim Henson, later the hand behind the Muppets, to make a film promoting the MT/ST, an early word … More
Unmonumental monuments
This text appeared in the catalogue for the Steirischer Herbst festival, Graz, 2010
Well Mannered Anarchists: The Design Research Unit
Written for Creative Review, this piece looked at the career of the ‘DESIGN RESEARCH UNIT’, the subject of an exhibition … More
