Graphic Design

Rick Poynor|Essays

How We Learned to Live with Zombies

Zombie films, zombie walks, zombie shops, zombie TV series: our darkest fears are now mainstream.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Another Design Voice Falls Silent

As design criticism takes off as a branch of academic study, design publications such as Grafik keep closing.

Rick Poynor|Essays

How to Cover an Impossible Book

Tadeusz Borowski’s book This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen poses a visual challenge for designers.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: Continuum’s 33 1/3 Series

The 33 1/3 books about classic albums are a perfect example of how design can help focus an editorial idea.

Chaz Maviyane-Davies|Gallery

Occupy America 2011

Graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies adapts a vision of repression

Rick Poynor|Essays

Did We Ever Stop Being Postmodern?

Like it or not, argues the V&A's exhibition about postmodernism and design, we are all postmodern now.

Julie Lasky|Projects

Media Design Matters

Art Center offers a new graduate track in social design that combines communications and technologies strategies with field work.

Rick Poynor|Essays

A Swedish Perspective on Critical Practice

The Reader, a recent book from Stockholm about critical practice, has some smart insights while missing the bigger picture.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Stop That: Minimalist Posters

Make a minimalist poster, see your work travel the digital world.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: The Metallization of a Dream

The best designed book about the artist Eduardo Paolozzi was compiled in 1963 by a student at the Royal College of Art.

An Xiao Mina|Essays

90 Years of Chinese Communism: A Multimedia Celebration

How the Chinese Communist Party designed its 90th anniversary commemorations

Rick Poynor|Essays

From the Archive: Raging Bull

A response to Michael Bierut’s essay about the relationship between bullshit and design, and the discussion that ensued.