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Rick Poynor is a British writer on design, graphic design, typography and visual culture. He began as a general visual arts journalist, working on Blueprint magazine in London. After founding Eye magazine [1], which he edited from 1990 to 1997, he focused increasingly on visual communication. He is writer-at-large and columnist of Eye, and a contributing editor and columnist of Print .

In 1999, Poynor was a co-ordinator of the First Things First 2000 manifesto initiated by Adbusters. [2] In 2003, he co-founded Design Observer [3], a weblog for design writing and discussion, with William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand and Michael Bierut. He wrote for the site until 2005. He was a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, London from 1994 to 1999 and returned to the RCA in 2006 as a research fellow. He has also taught at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. In 2004, Poynor curated the exhibition Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. The exhibition subsequently travelled to four venues in China and to Zurich. [4]

Poynor's writing encompasses both cultural criticism and design history and his books break down into three categories. He has written several monographs about significant British figures in the arts and design: Brian Eno (musician), Nigel Coates and Vaughan Oliver and Herbert Spencer (graphic designers). Other books document and analyse general movements in graphic design and typography. Among these are Typography Now, the first international survey of the digital typography of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and No More Rules, a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism. Poynor has also published three essay collections, Design Without Boundaries, Obey the Giant and Designing Pornotopia, which explore the cultural implications of visual communication, including advertising, photography, branding, graphic design and retail design.

Poynor was a prominent interviewee in the 2007 documentary film Helvetica.

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Total Books: 31
Anarchie der Zeichen
Anarchie Der Zeichen (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783412059033
ISBN-10: 341205903X
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Anarchie der Zeichen GrafikDesign von den Achtzigern bis heute
Anarchie Der Zeichen Grafikdesign Von Den Achtzigern Bis Heute [German Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783764304492
ISBN-10: 3764304499
Genre: Nonfiction
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The Annual of the American Institute of Graphics Arts
The Annual of the American Institute of Graphics Arts [365: Aiga Year in Design] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780823063918
ISBN-10: 0823063917
Genre: Arts & Photography
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Chris Ware
Chris Ware [Monographics] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781856693974
ISBN-10: 185669397X
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Dan Fern Works with Paper
Dan Fern Works with Paper [DesignFile] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781854541499
ISBN-10: 1854541498
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Der Verstand
Der Verstand (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783934022362
ISBN-10: 3934022367
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Design Without Boundaries Visual Communication in Transition
Designed by Peter Saville
Designed By Peter Saville (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780952741428
ISBN-10: 0952741423
Genre: Arts & Photography
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Designing Pornotopia Travels in Visual Culture
Graphic Edge
Graphic Edge (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780688142568
ISBN-10: 0688142567
Genre: Arts & Photography
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The Graphic Edge
The Graphic Edge (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780891345879
ISBN-10: 0891345876
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Hugo Puttaert Think in Colour visionandfactory
Hugo Puttaert Think in Colour VIsionandfactory (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9789491775185
ISBN-10: 9491775189
Genre: Arts & Photography
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International Design Year Book 1993 The [The International Design Yearbook - Spanish Edition] (Hardcover)
Jan Van Toorn Critical Practice
Jan Van Toorn Critical Practice (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9789064505652
ISBN-10: 9064505659
Genres: Arts & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs
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Looking Closer 3 Classic Writings on Graphic Design
Looking Closer 3 Classic Writings on Graphic Design [Looking Closer] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781581150223
ISBN-10: 1581150229
Genre: Arts & Photography
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More Dark Than Shark
More Dark Than Shark (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780571138838
ISBN-10: 0571138837
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Nigel Coates
Nigel Coates [Blueprint Monographs] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780947795740
ISBN-10: 094779574X
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No Mas Normas Diseno Grafico Posmoderno
No Mas Normas Diseno Grafico Posmoderno [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9789688874042
ISBN-10: 9688874043
Genres: Arts & Photography, Nonfiction
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No More Rules Graphic Design and Postmodernism
No More Rules Graphic Design and Postmodernism (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780300100341
ISBN-10: 0300100345
Genre: Arts & Photography
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Obey the Giant Life in the Image World
Typographica
Typographica (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781856692434
ISBN-10: 1856692434
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Typography Now The Next Wave