Rick Poynor is a writer, editor and lecturer. He founded Eye magazine in London in 1990, edited it for seven years, and is now its writer at large and columnist. He is a contributing editor and long-serving columnist for Print magazine in New York, and his essays, interviews and reviews about design, media and visual culture have appeared in Blueprint, Icon, Frieze, Domus, I.D., Metropolis, Harvard Design Magazine, Adbusters, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and many other publications. Poynor’s books include More Dark Than Shark (1986), a study of Brian Eno’s early songs; Typography Now: The Next Wave (1991), the first international survey of the new digital typography; Typographica (2001), a history of Herbert Spencer’s influential design magazine; and No More Rules (2003), a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism since the 1960s. He has also published three essay collections, Design Without Boundaries (1998), Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World (2001), and [Designing Pornotopia][]: Travels in Visual Culture (2006). Poynor studied the history of art at Manchester University and gained an MPhil in design history from the Royal College of Art, London. He was a Visiting Professor at the RCA from 1994 to 1999, and since 2006 he has been a Research Fellow at the college. In 2003, he co-founded [Design Observer][], a weblog for design discussion, which rapidly became a leading site in the field. In 2004, he was guest curator of the exhibition "Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties" at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. The exhibition toured to four venues in China and was also shown in Zurich. Poynor is a frequent speaker at public events, conferences and design schools in Europe, the United States, Australia, and China.

[Designing Pornotopia]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nbssb/026-2408128-6713236?url=search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=Designing+Pornotopia&Go.x=5&Go.y=7 [Design Observer]: http://designobserver.com/

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