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Activism that isn’t.

September 17, 2004 Blog

Flicking through the pages of this month’s Communication Arts magazine – a special ten-year anniversary issue on interactivity – I was intrigued to find one of the award-winners described as being part of the “creative activist movement”. Wha? It turns out that the company, Say It Loud!, is a new ad agency that has simply [...]

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Fun with logos.

July 24, 2004 Uncategorized
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There is such a thing as society.

July 12, 2004 Blog

Ten years ago, Andrew Howard, writing in Eye magazine, declared that ‘There is such a thing as society’. His article referenced Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher’s notorious utterance, in 1987, that ‘there is no such thing as society’. Howard’s piece also proved to be both a decisive moment in the relaunch of 1964′s First Things First [...]

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Graphic design (almost) without designers.

July 12, 2004 Uncategorized
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DesignInquiry, Day 2.

June 16, 2004 Uncategorized
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Your name in PRINT

May 27, 2004 Uncategorized

Last month I sat down and wrote a letter to the editor of PRINT magazine, taking their columnist Rick Poynor to task for a rather ill-considered article on the tired old debate about theory vs. practice in graphic design. The impetus for my letter was twofold: first, Poynor includes me in his indictment and, second, [...]

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