Typography Now Two, Implosion

by Rick Poynor

In this follow-up to Typography The Next Wave, Rick Poynor updates the story of typography in the past ?ve years, focusing on the most innovative designers and projects in print, advertising, and the moving image. Stylishly designed by Johnathan Barnbrook, this book will become an inspiring resource for designers, students, and those working in the media. "This welcome book deserves serious attention. Poynor's treatment of this international phenomenon is not frivolous... it should invite a critical reappraisal of where design is heading." - Richard Hollis, Blueprint

"Poynor's excellent opening essay uses some of the most accessible stylistic effects of experimental typography in a highly readable synthesis of text and image." - Cynthia Baron, Critique

"Typography Now Two is a treat... a valuable addition to the designer's and design historian's library." - Peter Hall, ID Magazine MAKING AN ANGEL by Antony Gormley Paperback, full colour 144pp 288 240mm

Genres: Design, Art Design

223 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

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, 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 (magazine).

In 1999, Poynor was a co-ordinator of the First Things First 2000 manifesto initiated by Adbusters. In 2003, he co-founded Design Observer, 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 Communicate: 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.

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 (architect) 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.

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has been really helpful for my A Level in Photography.