Rick Poynor is a British writer on design and visual culture. He was the founding editor of Eye magazine, which he edited from 1990 to 1997. He has been a contributing editor and columnist for Print magazine in New York since 2000, and he has written for I.D., Metropolis, Blueprint, Icon, Frieze, Adbusters, Creative Review, Harvard Design Magazine, The Guardian, Financial Times, and many other publications. In 2003, he was a co-founder of Design Observer, which rapidly became a leading weblog for design discussion. Poynor’s books include No More Rules (2003), a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism, and three essay collections, Design Without Boundaries (1998), Obey the Giant (2001) and Designing Pornotopia (2006). His latest book is Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice (2008), a monograph about the radical Dutch designer. In 2004, Poynor was curator of “Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties” at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. The exhibition travelled to China and Switzerland. From 1994 to 1999, he was a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London and since 2006 he has been a research fellow at the college. He has lectured widely about design matters in Europe, the US, Australia and China.
Keynote
What did designers think about before they invented design thinking?
A skeptical non-designer’s view of the latest unstoppable buzzword for what designers do – or what everyone else now seems to think they can do just as well as designers. Find out why Rick thinks it isn’t actually in the designer’s interest that business is embracing this term so whole-heartedly.
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