John-Patrick Hartnett
Recent articles by John-Patrick Hartnett
Ecological literacy
Issue 105, Autumn 2023
The result of a decade spent ‘formulating a stronger ecological theory for design’, Joanna Boehnert’s…
Crisis by design
Issue 102, Autumn 2021
Editors Tony Fry and Adam Nocek present Design in Crisis as part of an ‘ongoing conversation that aims to challenge how designers engage with the planetary crises …
Read and destroy
Issue 101, Summer 2021
Art and design pedagogy is generally agreed today on the imperative for educators to facilitate independent…
Space Type Generator
Issue 100, Summer 2020
Kiel Mutschelknaus’s constantly evolving Space Type Generator has the power to hypnotise
Chloe Scheffe: Rethinking editorial design
Issue 100, Summer 2020
Brooklyn-based Chloe Scheffe designs books by groundbreaking thinkers and tackles magazines with a similarly radical approach
Spassky Fischer: Concrete moves
Issue 100, Summer 2020
The work of this prolific young French studio is founded on practicality and systems, while transcending such prosaic methods
In search of dialogue
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
The Design Observer (DO) blog was launched in 2003 by William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, Michael…
A new world of worlds
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
‘What would it take to construct a non-Eurocentric design imagination?’ This is the stark question…
Attitudinal angle
Issue 97, Autumn 2018
We live in an ‘extraordinarily turbulent, often perilous time when we face changes of unprecedented…
Paper trail of a digital pioneer
Issue 96, Spring 2018
The publication of Muriel Cooper will be a cause for celebration among many readers of…
The programmed designer
Issue 94, Summer 2017
Industry-standard tools – Apple computers, Adobe software – have created astonishing new possibilities for graphic designers. But is this liberation, or a new kind of imprisonment?
Thesis & antithesis & synthesis (& EJ)
Issue 92, Summer 2016
There are few high-profile ‘traditional’ graphic design studios whose members discuss their work in such…
Killing joke at the expense of history
Issue 91, Spring 2016
Swissted’s typographic homages turn Modernist design history into hollow commodities for a new ‘blank generation’