John-Patrick Hartnett
Recent articles by John-Patrick Hartnett
Space Type Generator
Issue 100, Summer 2020
Kiel Mutschelknaus’s constantly evolving Space Type Generator has the power to hypnotise
Chloe Scheffe: Rethinking editorial design
Issue 100, Summer 2020
Brooklyn-based Chloe Scheffe designs books by groundbreaking thinkers and tackles magazines with a…
Spassky Fischer: Concrete moves
Issue 100, Summer 2020
The work of this prolific young French studio is founded on practicality and systems, while…
In search of dialogue
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
The Design Observer (DO) blog was launched in 2003 by William Drenttel…
A new world of worlds
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
‘What would it take to construct a non-Eurocentric design imagination?’ This…
Attitudinal angle
Issue 97, Autumn 2018
We live in an ‘extraordinarily turbulent, often perilous time when we face…
Paper trail of a digital pioneer
Issue 96, Spring 2018
The publication of Muriel Cooper will be a cause for celebration among many…
The programmed designer
Issue 94, Summer 2017
Industry-standard tools – Apple computers, Adobe software – have created astonishing new…
Thesis & antithesis & synthesis (& EJ)
Issue 92, Summer 2016
There are few high-profile ‘traditional’ graphic design studios whose members…
Killing joke at the expense of history
Issue 91, Spring 2016
Swissted’s typographic homages turn Modernist design history into hollow commodities for a new…