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Kerry William Purcell

Recent articles by Kerry William Purcell

Modern methodIssue 79, Spring 2011
Feature

	As the Design Museum launches a retrospective of Wim Crouwel’s work, Kerry William Purcell interviews the Total Design (TD) co-founder.            
Adventures in motion pictures. Frozen fireIssue 77, Autumn 2010
Feature

                                            ‘It’s like a game of rock-paper-scissors, in which the flicker of film melts the frozen photograph.’             
A very English traditionIssue 60, Summer 2006
Review

                                                If graphic design history can be read as a family tree, Britain has long played…                        
Designer poetryIssue 62, Winter 2006
Review

                                                I recently discovered on a visit to my daughter’s primary school how today’s methods of…                        
Plundering history for handy hintsFeature

The birth of Swiss graphic designFeature

Delightful Precipice At The Edge Of Communicative RealityIssue 63, Spring 2007
Review

                                                Creating the impression that we are experiencing genuine change, while in actuality nothing has really…                        
Commerce, culture and customer publishingFeature

Thou shalt not tweak fontsFeature

What’s it all about, Bruce?Feature

The Fellowship of Magnum [extract]Feature

The grip of American Modernism [EXTRACT]Feature

The end of Swiss graphicsFeature

Canon count: the Livingstons’ balancing actFeature

A talent that linked Modernism with lifeIssue 58, Winter 2005
Review

                                                Graphic design is a formless discipline. Functioning at the nexus point of so many traditions…                        
Swing to the right… creatively speakingIssue 62, Winter 2006
Review

                                                Many art and design educators look to the idea of the lateralisation of brain function…                        
The impact of VorticismIssue 81, Autumn 2011
Review

                                                Is it a sign of the growing acceptance of graphic design as a legitimate subject…                        
The Crafty LinotyperIssue 55, Spring 2005
Feature

	Made in 1941 for AD magazine, Herbert Matter’s ‘typographic ballet’ is a dreamlike curiosity            
British design myths dispelledIssue 77, Autumn 2010
Review

                                                While, on the surface, Modern British Posters seeks to chart the evolution of the British…                        
The birth of Swiss graphic designReview

                                                It was in an attempt to clarify the meaning of language as arising from its use…                        
Peak practice: beautiful Swiss booksIssue 58, Winter 2005
Review

                                                As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…