Hopefully you've managed to get hold of a copy of
Design Week's chunky 20th birthday supplement by now. I was lucky enough to have been asked to contribute a 3,000-word look back over the past two decades of graphic design; a golden opportunity to dust off all those old magazines and design annuals and revisit some iconic blasts from the past (pp18-23, if you're looking). My graphic heroes past and present are all namechecked – from
Brody and
Barnbrook to
Carson and
Kalman. It's perhaps surprising how many of these evocative pieces – like your favourite music – seem to mark particular stages in your life.
