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In the last four decades British graphic design has established itself as a powerful and significant force, expressing itself within the music and publishing industries, through brand identities, new media and all other forms of visual communication in the contemporary world. Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties, which accompanies the Barbican exhibition of the same title, presents an authoritative overview of the design work produced in this period, tracing how and why British graphic design has developed in the way it has Over 60 internationally renowned designers working today are featured, including Derek Birdsall, Mark Farrow, Neville Brody, Peter Saville, Why Not Associates and The Designers Republic. Rare and classic pieces from the 1960s by influential designers such as Barney Bubbles, Herbert Spencer and Michael English are also featured. The book is divided into sections covering Publishing, Identity, the Arts, Music, Politics and Society and Self-initiated Work, with essays by John O'Reilly, David Crowley and Nico MacDonald. There are interviews with ten key designers, including Julian House, Ian Anderson and Margaret Calvert, and biographies of all the designers featured.
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Rick Poynor founded Eye magazine in 1990 and was its editor for seven years. He now writes about design, media and visual culture for Eye, Blueprint, Frieze, Graphis, Adbusters, The Guardian and many other publications. His other books published by Laurence King Publishing include Typographica and No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism.
In the last four decades British graphic design has established itself as a powerful and significant force, expressing itself within the music and publishing industries, through brand identities, new media and all other forms of visual communication in the contemporary world. Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties, which accompanies the Barbican exhibition of the same title, presents an authoritative overview of the design work produced in this period, tracing how and why British graphic design has developed in the way it has Over 60 internationally renowned designers working today are featured, including Derek Birdsall, Mark Farrow, Neville Brody, Peter Saville, Why Not Associates and The Designers Republic. Rare and classic pieces from the 1960s by influential designers such as Barney Bubbles, Herbert Spencer and Michael English are also featured. The book is divided into sections covering Publishing, Identity, the Arts, Music, Politics and Society and Self-initiated Work, with essays by John O'Reilly, David Crowley and Nico MacDonald. There are interviews with ten key designers, including Julian House, Ian Anderson and Margaret Calvert, and biographies of all the designers featured.
About the Author
Rick Poynor founded Eye magazine in 1990 and was its editor for seven years. He now writes about design, media and visual culture for Eye, Blueprint, Frieze, Graphis, Adbusters, The Guardian and many other publications. His other books published by Laurence King Publishing include Typographica and No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism.
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It may seem surprising now, but graphic design, as we understand it today, was slower to develop in 20th-century Britain than it was in European countries such as Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, or in the United States, where several significant European designers fled at the time of the Second World War. Read the first page
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It may seem surprising now, but graphic design, as we understand it today, was slower to develop in 20th-century Britain than it was in European countries such as Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, or in the United States, where several significant European designers fled at the time of the Second World War. Read the first page
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