Ken Garland
Recent articles by Ken Garland
Last things last
Issue 83, Summer 2012
It’s not a case of ‘us and them’! Ken Garland addresses an issue left unsaid in his 1964 First…
Brodovitch remembered in style
Issue 47, Spring 2003
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
Encouraged, no doubt, by the well deserved success of his first documentary…
Common sense under a daft cover
Issue 65, Autumn 2007
The meaningless, whimsical title and the ghastly illustration on the cover will…
Tool-shop for a counterculture
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Ken Garland hails the ultimate buying guide for the anti-capitalist revolution
Herbert Spencer: 1924-2002
Issue 44, Summer 2002
Ken Garland recalls the late British designer and editor who died earlier this year
First Things First Manifesto 2000
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
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
Graphic designers fill the world with a Babel of signs. Is it time we took them away again? By Ken…
Recent blog posts by Ken Garland
Posters of protest and peace
7 July 2015
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 70 photographs that form its endpapers, writes Ken Garland.