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Jim Northover

Recent articles by Jim Northover

The museum manIssue 92, Summer 2016
Review

                                                This confidently displayed show draws a line in the sand. It secures the De La…                        
The first couple of American billboardsIssue 89, Winter 2014
Feature

                                            
	Otis and Dorothy Shepard, the ‘Scott and Zelda’ of mid-century advertising graphics, were neglected when design history was written. A new book brings their colourful legacy into vivid focus            
An enquiring mindIssue 85, Spring 2013
Review

                                                Ken Garland (b. 1929) is something of an enigma in British graphic design. Not fitting…                        
Crashing and burningIssue 80, Summer 2011
Feature

                                            Design and business make a volatile mix, says Jim Northover, but it is one we cannot afford to dismiss            
Twentieth-century Renaissance manIssue 82, Winter 2011
Review

                                                My generation grew up in awe of a handful of American designers. Pre-eminent among them…                        
Trust in ModernismIssue 81, Autumn 2011
Feature

                                            The John Lewis Partnership’s co-operative ethos has informed 50 years of corporate identity.            

Recent blog posts about Jim Northover

Type Tuesday

7 February 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Typography

Letters that sell: a typographic history of UK department store John Lewis

From store signing to ticketing, customer correspondence, leaflets, advertising and websites, typography plays a crucial…

Words in practice

9 January 2012
Design education, Design history, Graphic design

Writing and designing are part of a continuum of communication skills.

Graphic design has always been about words and images. Nowadays words play an even bigger…