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.

Rick Poynor|Essays

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.

Rick Poynor|Essays

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.

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|Essays

From the Archive: Surface Wreckage

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

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Conceptual Advertising of J.G. Ballard

J.G. Ballard’s conceptual ads anticipated the emergence of culture jamming, subvertising, design fiction and speculative design.

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Striporama street scene by Vivian Maier

How good was the photographer nanny?

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Luigi Russolo’s Noise Machines

Sonic conjurors of experimental music

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Flypaper and Flies by Jacques-André Boiffard

A cold eye on insect carnage

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: The Eiffel Tower by Germaine Krull

A Paris icon made abstract