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Ken Garland

Recent articles by Ken Garland

First things lastIssue 14, Autumn 1994
Opinion

                                            
	Letter from Ken Garland in Eye 14            
Last things lastIssue 83, Summer 2012
Feature

                                            
	It’s not a case of ‘us and them’! Ken Garland addresses an issue left unsaid in his 1964 First Things First manifesto: an acknowledgement of the client’s essential role in graphic design            
Brodovitch remembered in styleIssue 47, Spring 2003
Review

                                                When Alexey Brodovitch died in 1971, aged 73, he had been a physical wreck for…                        
Product design: secular religion or useful hobby?Issue 75, Spring 2010
Review

                                                Encouraged, no doubt, by the well deserved success of his first documentary, Helvetica (2007; see…                        
Common sense under a daft coverFeature

                                    
Tool-shop for a countercultureIssue 78, Winter 2010
Feature

                                            Ken Garland hails the ultimate buying guide for the anti-capitalist revolution            
A bonkers bash at street artFeature

                                    
The greatest love of all [EXTRACT]Feature

                                    
Herbert Spencer: 1924-2002Issue 44, Summer 2002
Feature

                                            
	Ken Garland recalls the late British designer and editor who died earlier this year            
First Things First Manifesto 2000Issue 33, Autumn 1999
Feature

                                            Thirty-three visual communicators renew the 1964 call for a change of priorities            
Are you sure you need that new logo?Issue 10, Autumn 1993
Opinion

                                            
	Graphic designers fill the world with a Babel of signs. Is it time we took them away again? By Ken Garland            

Recent blog posts about Ken Garland

The clarity of the innocent eye

25 May 2021
Critical path, Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Technology

In this previously unpublished essay from 2003, Ken Garland (who died last week) urges designers to be ‘alert’. In an afterword, Andrew Howard explains the context

I’ve been working as a graphic designer for 50 years, first as an art director…

Posters of protest and peace

7 July 2015
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Reviews

This Czech poster book contains much that is fresh and surprising, but makes some odd omissions. Review by Ken Garland

The context for the work shown in this book is usefully established by the 7…