Category: Dialogues

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Debbie Millman|Dialogues

Obsessive Branding Disorder II

©2004 Funnypart.comThe current discipline and practice of branding is both obsessively fascinating and shamelessly polarizing. Because our lives are so entwined with brands, it has become difficult to distinguish between our beliefs and …

Adrian Shaughnessy|Dialogues

Obsessive Branding Disorder I

Obsessive Branding Disorder by Lucas Conley is a book that graphic designers can place on their shelves next to Virginia Postrel’s The Substance of Style. Both books are written by non-designers and both shine a spotlight onto the nature …

Rick Poynor|Dialogues

We Found It at the Movies: Part I

Rick Poynor: Looking back, it’s surprising how long we’d known each other before it emerged that we shared an obsession for film. Adrian Shaughnessy: Your obsession with film came as a surprise. Before lending you …

Rick Poynor|Dialogues

We Found It at the Movies: Part II

The second installment of Rick Poynor and Adrian Shaughnessy’s conversation about film. Can genre movies express a personal vision? Are films blurring into other media? And what’s the state of film culture today?

Denise Gonzales Crisp|Dialogues

A Critical View of Graphic Design History

Now comes yet another historical survey, Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide by Johanna Drucker and Emily McVarish. Denise Gonzales Crisp and Rick Poynor have been marking pages, making notes and exchanging views...

Alice Twemlow|Dialogues

A New Graphic Design History?

Graphic Design: A New History, cover design by Angus Hyland, PentagramLast month, Yale University Press added a new title to graphic design history's sparsely furnished bookshelf. The hefty 464-page hardback volume, Graphic Design: A New …