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David Crowley

Recent articles by David Crowley

Pulling back the curtainIssue 97, Autumn 2018
Feature

	Published by the Communist Women’s League, Ty i Ja [You and I] was an ambitious 1960s title that…
I am a posterIssue 92, Summer 2016
Feature

	David Crowley, curator of ‘The Poster Remediated’ at the Warsaw International Poster Biennale…
Fighting back with picturesIssue 91, Spring 2016
Review

	This is the third book which Liz McQuiston has written on graphic protest in…
      
Slip sliding into historyIssue 89, Winter 2014
Review

	About halfway through this long and highly detailed study of the life and…
      
Book of revelationsIssue 88, Summer 2014
Review

	The uncontroversial premise of Multiple Signatures is that design is a…
      
Mr Beck’s uke mapIssue 85, Spring 2013
Review

	Just over a hundred years ago the music business experienced its first major…
      
Guerrilla warfare, semiotic styleIssue 85, Spring 2013
Review

	The political philosophy of anarchism has attracted some extraordinary and…
      
Shadows over PolandIssue 83, Summer 2012
Review

	The Polish Poster School of the 1950s and 60s casts a long shadow over…
      
StrikethroughIssue 69, Autumn 2008
Feature
The act of erasure, or striking out, can add new, unintended meanings to the images and information…
Designing dictatorshipIssue 69, Autumn 2008
Review

                I went to Tate Modern a few years ago with a Polish friend who had grown up during…
      
Archeology of printIssue 67, Spring 2008
Review

                What comes to mind when you picture a French book? Perhaps it is the ivory-coloured…
      
Human rights: from bathos to indignation Issue 56, Summer 2005
Review

                It is hard, if not impossible, to doubt the purpose of this book. Compiled by Lars…
      
Beneath the surfaceIssue 45, Autumn 2002
Review

                Ellen Lupton, the editor and principal author of this book, will be familiar to…
      
Humanity And PublicityIssue 63, Spring 2007
Review

	This handsome and well illustrated monograph is the latest in a sequence of…
      
An anti-monument to successIssue 44, Summer 2002
Review

                Graphic design, on the evidence of most of the book-publishing activity that…
      
Stretching the credibility of scienceIssue 68, Summer 2008
Review

	Sometimes an exhibition so successfully crystallises a change in the way…
      
Fleet Street of wallsIssue 65, Autumn 2007
Feature
Wall newspapers, with a chequered history stretching from propaganda to protest, are populist and…
Out of handIssue 80, Summer 2011
Feature
Handwriting is a touchstone in the history of graphic design, where lettering meets the messy…
Detach, detourne and consumeIssue 42, Winter 2001
Feature
Alienation sells! The seductive flatness of Situationist aesthetics
Advertising and historyIssue 57, Autumn 2005
Opinion
Admen plunder the past – with no history to call their own

Recent blog posts by David Crowley

Remediation in Warsaw

4 April 2016

Posters aren’t dead, they’re just off the wall. David Crowley explains the thinking behind the forthcoming Warsaw International Poster Biennale

The Warsaw International Poster Biennale is 50 years old in June, writes David Crowley.

Book of revelations

13 February 2014

Michael Rock delivers more words about buildings and fnord

The uncontroversial premise of Multiple Signatures is that design is a collaborative act, writes David Crowley.