Designers interviewed Posts
Paul Rand: Old Master
Even in his late seventies, the late American graphics giant Paul Rand did lengthy working days at the most energetic pace. For creatives everywhere, he remains an example
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Straddling art and design: an interview with Milton Glaser
Milt Glaser put Bob Dylan in silhouette on a memorable poster (1967), and designed the red-hearted I Love NY logo (1975). Now the subject of a Sky Arts documentary, I talked to him 20 years ago
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Homage to Dick Hess
Interview at the Connecticut home of the late Dick Hess, co-inventor of Paint By Numbers and one of the 20th century’s greatest illustrators and graphic designers
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Why Paul Rand hates logos
In the pantheon of US designers, they don’t come more eminent than Paul Rand. He made corporate identity into modernist clarity
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Saul Bass – film titles, films and corporate identity
Workaholic, perfectionist and Hollywood raconteur: you name it, Saul Bass did it
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Dieter Rams: The apostle of Cool
Interview with Dieter Rams, the crusading German designer of Braun products and much besides
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FHK Henrion: graphics as propaganda in World War II
He represented the progressive mission of twentieth-century graphic design
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Gert Dumbar: Holland’s best-known contemporary graphic designer
The Dutch have given us Philips, Shell and Heineken; they have given the world and South Africa the adjective verkrampte
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David King: graphic designer, ranged left
When once he art-edited the Sunday Times colour supp, David King revived Leon Trotsky
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James Dyson: Last of the great inventors
This, published by Blueprint in September 1984, is the first interview James Dyson ever gave
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Nick Butler: product designer as an anti-hero
Nick Butler died in early 2012. Here, in a rare and relatively early interview, he explains why, despite being one of Britain’s most successful 20th century designers, he preferred to keep a low profile
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ROUTE MASTER
Douglas Scott is the unsung hero of British industrial design. Largely unacclaimed, he designed products as universal as Aga cookers, the London double-decker bus and telephone coin boxes
King Miranda and the legacy of Italian design
England’s Perry King and Spain’s Santiago Miranda helped lead the 1980s revival of Milanese design
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Malcolm McLaren: the punk Svengali as forecaster
Thirty-six years on, the famous British impresario is entirely prescient here – about the infantilisation of adults, the cult of play, and the rise of selfies
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Beginning at the bench: interview with Gordon Russell
Gordon Russell was one of the doyens of 20th century British design. He was also iconoclastic in his opinions about it. I talked to him at his cottage in Gloucestershire
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Raymond Loewy: a message from a grand old man
Interview with the man who invented industrial design. Raymond Loewy is 87 on 5 November this year
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#IOPC IN THE NEWS AGAIN. Pix: DG Rachel Watson; Acting Deputy DG Kathie Cashell;
Amanda Rowe and Steve Noonann, both Acting Directors, Operations.
That's a lot of acting! No wonder the IOPC's report never saw the light of day.
Are we a bit flaccid, perhaps?
A dubious editorial decision by the Daily Mail that risks glorifying one of the most evil men in history. Who cares about his air fryer recipes?