Rick Poynor

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.

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Exposure: Nurse Midwife by W. Eugene Smith

The mystery of birth

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Inkahoots and Socially Concerned Design: Part 1

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

Rick Poynor|Essays

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.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Writings of William Drenttel

Essays from the Design Observer archive show the wide scope of William Drenttel's interests and concerns.

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Woman Mailing a Letter by Clifton R. Adams

The spell of vintage color

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From the Archive: Surface Wreckage

Why do photographs and images of torn street posters exert such a powerful hold on the imagination and emotions?

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Man in a Bowler: Illustration after Magritte

By copying Magritte’s subject matter and method, illustrators ended up making a great artist look hackneyed.