Gert Dumbar

Recent articles about Gert Dumbar

Gentleman’s relish [EXTRACT]

Issue 107, Winter 2025

Review

Gert Dumbar was always a social animal. He possessed an impish sense of humour, a twinkle in his eye, bags of charm, and he knew how to use them …

The designer as author

Issue 20, Spring 1996

Feature

Graphic authorship is taken for granted by many design theorists and it is gaining ground within practice, too. But the idea has received little sustained examination. What does it mean and what is really possible?

Enigma variations

Issue 19, Winter 1995

Feature

Studio Dumbar uses its posters for the Zeebelt Theatre in the Hague for anarchic type experiments

Flexible geometry

Issue 1, Autumn 1990

Feature

How Studio Dumbar propelled the PTT into the present

Recent blog posts about Gert Dumbar

Offset 2016: day three

29 April 2016
Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Visual culture

Studio Dumbar, Niall McInnery, Andy Ristaino, Úna Burke, McBess, Stephen Averill and Shaughn McGrath … and Seb Lester. Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar conclude their coverage of the Dublin Offset conference
By the Sunday morning at Offset 2016, more coffee is required, with several extra shots…

Five strategies tabled in Eindhoven

27 October 2014
Critical path, Graphic design, Posters, Visual culture

Van Abbemuseum throws new light on Jan van Toorn’s critical design practice
Homage exhibitions are inherently celebratory, writes Francisco Laranjo. However ‘Staging the Message: The Open Work…