Rick Poynor
Rick founded Eye magazine in 1990, edited it for seven years and now contributes to the magazine by writing regular columns. He also writes about design, media and visual culture for Eye, Blueprint, Icon, Creative Review, Frieze, Domus, I.D., Metropolis, Harvard Design Magazine, Adbusters, The Guardian, Financial Times, and many other publications. Rick has also published many books including Typography Now: The Next Wave (1991), Typographica (Laurence King Publishing, 2001), and No More Rules (Yale University Press, 2003), a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism. He is the author of three essay collections, Design Without Boundaries (1998), Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World (Birkhuser, 2001 and 2007), and Designing Pornotopia: Travels in Visual Culture (Laurence King Publishing, 2006).
go to: http://www.designobserver.com/archives/002505.html