Rick Poynor

Rick Poynor|Essays

Bohumil Stepan’s Gallery of Erotic Humor

Mapp Editions has released a digital version of Bohumil Stepan’s Galerie (1968), a surreal collection of collages and drawings about the relationship between the sexes.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Hotel that Dreamed It Was a Museum

The Walpole Bay Hotel: Living Museum, junk-clogged bane of hotel inspectors, or Wunderkammer?

Rick Poynor|Essays

Collage Now, Part 2: Cut and Paste Culture

Cut-and-paste culture is booming and collage-making is rampant: paper-based, digital, and all points between.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Keld Helmer-Petersen: Pioneer of Color

An accessible edition of Keld Helmer-Petersen’s 122 Colour Photographs, a landmark 1948 photobook.

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David Maisel and the Apocalyptic Sublime

David Maisel’s photographs are visions of the Earth as we have never seen it full of beauty and terror.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Soft Machine’s Dysfunctional Mechanism

An alternative cover for the French release of The Soft Machine’s first album alludes to the history of the machine in 20th-century art.

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Inkahoots and Socially Concerned Design: Part 2

In the mid-1990s, Inkahoots became a graphic design studio with its sights set on social causes.

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The Irresistible Attraction of Self Storage

Self storage centers are places of private and public fascination and I always knew that one day I would succumb.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Age of Wire and String Rebooted

Granta’s new edition of The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus is a landmark of experimental illustration.

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On the Trail of The Eater of Darkness

The Eater of Darkness is a collision of science fiction, murder mystery, Surrealism and experimental typography.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Practical Virtue of Works That Work

Works That Work magazine reclaims the word “creativity” from the stultifying embrace of branding culture and design thinking.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: Fin de Copenhague

Asger Jorn and Guy Debord’s book Fin de Copenhague is a Situationist classic and a brilliant piece of design.