Rick Poynor is an English writer on design, graphic design, typography, and visual culture.
10 Facts About Rick Poynor
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Rick Poynor began as a general visual arts journalist, working on Blueprint magazine in London.
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Rick Poynor is writer-at-large and columnist of Eye, and a contributing editor and columnist of Print magazine.
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In 1999, Poynor was a co-ordinator of the First Things First 2000 manifesto initiated by Adbusters.
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Rick Poynor 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.
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In 2004, Rick Poynor curated the exhibition, Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties, at the Barbican Art Gallery in London.
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Rick Poynor's writing encompasses both cultural criticism and design history, and his books break down into three categories.
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Rick Poynor wrote several monographs about significant British figures in the arts and design: Brian Eno, Nigel Coates, Vaughan Oliver, and Herbert Spencer.
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Rick Poynor 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.
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Rick Poynor was a prominent interviewee in the 2007 documentary film Helvetica.