Graphic Design

Rick Poynor|Essays

Brian Eno’s “Music for Films”

On Brian Eno and a competition to design an alternative sleeve for Music for Films

Rick Poynor|Essays

Updating the Maps of Graphic Design History

Graphic Design: History in the Writing is a heartening sign that graphic design history is attracting a new generation.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: A History of the Machine

Erik Nitsche’s New Illustrated Library of Science and Invention is a landmark of modern, low-cost, mass-market, educational book design.

Rick Poynor|Essays

From the Archive: Graphic Metallica

Heavy metal’s extremity, as a set of aesthetic choices and as a way of life, exerts an enduring fascination.

Amelia Lacy|Unusual Suspects

Gene & Jackie Lacy

Gene and Jackie Lacy, Indianapolis-based graphic designers and illustrators practicing from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Michael Bierut|Essays

The Poster that Launched a Movement (Or Not)

In the age of social media, does political graphic design matter?

Rick Poynor|Essays

Studio Culture: The Materialism of Matter

Studio, print shop, dance club and store: a photographic essay on Matter's design HQ in Denver.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Enduring Influence of Richard Hollis

An exhibition of Richard Hollis’s work provides the first public opportunity to assess the entire shape of his output.

Nancy Levinson|Essays

Design Indaba 2012

Design Indaba 2012 gathered creative people from graphic and product design, architecture and landscape, film and video, not to mention Danish gastronomy and Bollywood movies.

Pat Kirkham|Essays

Reassessing the Saul Bass and Alfred Hitchcock Collaboration

The evidence, scholarship and debates: Saul Bass and the famous shower scene in “Psycho.”

Rick Poynor|Essays

Read All That? You Must be Kidding Me

Ellen Lupton’s essay about reading and writing for Graphic Design: Now in Production misses some key points.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: Jean-Luc Godard Anthologized

Lawrence Ratzkin’s cover design for an early anthology about Jean-Luc Godard is almost an anti-cover.