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Rick Poynor

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Rick Poynor|Essays

A Dictionary of Surrealism and the Graphic Image

An alphabetical guide to graphic designers influenced by Surrealism and to some key Surrealist concepts.

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Oildale by Rudy VanderLans

The dismal beauty of an oil field

Rick Poynor|Essays

Utopian Image: Politics and Posters

By celebrating political posters for their design do we collude with the established order they seek to challenge?

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Untitled Film Still #21 by Cindy Sherman

The photographer as performer

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Conceptual Posters of Boris Bucan

Boris Bućan’s little known early posters, produced in Zagreb, were reductive, sharply defined, cerebral and enigmatic.

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Nurse Midwife by W. Eugene Smith

The mystery of birth

Rick Poynor|Essays

Inkahoots and Socially Concerned Design: Part 1

The Australian design team Inkahoots is a model of community-based graphic design practice.

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From the Archive: Upgrade Yourself!

If appearances matter more than ever, as we are constantly told, the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Incidental Pleasures of Street Art

Sprawling, evolving, accreting: a collection of recent street art photos from Portugal and Spain.

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Saul Leiter and the Typographic Fragment

In Saul Leiter's color photographs, the fragment is infinitely more mysterious and suggestive than the whole.

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Collage Now, Part 1: Sergei Sviatchenko

In a crowded field, Sergei Sviatchenko’s highly reductive photo-collages look like his own and no one else’s.

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On Display: The Kirkland Museum

If I had to pick just one Denver museum to revisit, it would be the fabulous Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art.

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