Rick Poynor is a British 🏷️#writer on design, graphic design, typography, and visual culture. [1] 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 more 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. 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.
Poynor's writing encompasses both cultural criticism and design history, and his books break down into three categories. He wrote several monographs about significant British figures in the arts and design. Other books document and analyze 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 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.
"Brian, it's great to see you continue to pursue your writing. You have solid instincts. There are some strong design writers in the mix. Check out Rick Poynor, original editor of Eye magazine, one of the world's best design publications. He's brilliant." ~ 📝Michael Jager
References
- Rick Poynor, wikipedia.org