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Recent articles about Robert Brownjohn

Wit, bad taste and loud typeIssue 91, Spring 2016
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	The photos of legendary graphic designer Robert Brownjohn show an outsider’s view of 1960s London            
Out of the shallowsIssue 86, Autumn 2013
Review

                                                This photograph of a deliriously colourful 1969 swimming pool designed by Verner Panton for the…                        
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…                        
Getting better all the time…Issue 69, Autumn 2008
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	Self-styled ‘graphic entertainer’ Alan Aldridge shot to fame in the mid-1960s with his work for The Sunday Times magazine, Penguin Books, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and The Who. Aldridge regards The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (see Eye no. 57 vol. 15) as an ‘illustration of the 1960s’, and you could say the same for much of his new book The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes (Thames &amp; Hudson, £24.95), published to coincide with the Design Museum show of the same name. In this extract, Aldridge recounts his experiences after being fired from a job as a junior finished artist at Charlotte Studios – ‘supply your own steel rule and X-Acto knife’ – in a London that was just about to Swing.            
Reputations: Bob GillIssue 33, Autumn 1999
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	‘I’ve never had a problem with a dumb client. There’s no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.’ Interview by Patrick Baglee            
Postcards from a generous drifterIssue 41, Autumn 2001
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                                                Alan Fletcher describes his latest book as ‘a journey without a destination’. I’m not sure…                        
Surface wreckageIssue 34, Winter 1999
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                                            Three books showing accidental collages of torn posters an other random marks revive interest in a style of image-making drawn from the city streets            
History’s role in the studioIssue 9, Summer 1993
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                                                Now in its sixth year, the ‘Modernism and Eclecticism’ symposium organised by Steven Heller in…                        
BJIssue 4, Summer 1991
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	Robert Brownjohn wanted to eliminate the boundaries between experience and design. In an explosively short career of remarkable promise, he pushed graphics, advertising and film to their conceptual limits            

Recent blog posts about Robert Brownjohn

Eye before you buy 91

29 March 2016
Design education, Graphic design, Magazines, Visual culture

Eye 91 is currently shipping to subscribers and bookshops worldwide. Here is a glimpse of its contents on a short Vimeo clip

The latest edition of Eye features articles about Camille Walala, the Baddeley Brothers book by…

Two degrees of (colour) separation

5 September 2008
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Posters

Graphic Rolling Stones artefacts are saved for the nation

It began with a letter – addressed to the designer at the Royal College of…