Jeremy Myerson is Professor of Design Studies and Co-Director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art in London, and former Editor of Design Week and of Creative Review.
Rick Poynor writes on design and the visual arts. He is founder and Editor of Eye magazine, the acclaimed international review of graphic communication, from 1990-7. His books include Typographica, Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World, Profile and No More Rules.
David Gibbs has been editorial consultant to Pentagram since the 1970s. He is the editor of Pentagram: The Compendium, also published by Phaidon.
Beware wet paint | p. 9 |
Ideas take shape | p. 15 |
Colourways | p. 29 |
Pidgin graphics | p. 45 |
In conversation | p. 61 |
Body language | p. 69 |
Making marks | p. 85 |
Nothing wasted | p. 103 |
Manipulating the eye | p. 113 |
A graphic excursion | p. 125 |
Letterwriting | p. 141 |
Wayfinding | p. 155 |
Recycling materials | p. 163 |
The man who looked around | p. 177 |
Weather report | p. 183 |
Purloining | p. 195 |
Exploiting uniformity | p. 205 |
Negative is positive | p. 217 |
Star gazing | p. 229 |
The alphabet at work | p. 239 |
Background is foreground | p. 253 |
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