John McConnell
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Reputations: John McConnell
Issue 81, Autumn 2011
‘By wanting to be intelligent, it usually gets simpler and simpler. The creative process is paring back all the time. If you can’t defend it, get rid of it.That’s what turns me on. How simple can you make it? Usually, “creativity” means showing off to your peer group, and creativity without intelligence is as dumb as it comes.’
Shouting from the shelves
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
Faber and Faber, the independent British publisher founded in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber (there was…
Trust in Modernism
Issue 81, Autumn 2011
The John Lewis Partnership’s co-operative ethos has informed 50 years of corporate identity.
The boy’s book of Pentagram
Issue 11, Winter 1993
Pentagram are masters of self-promotion. ‘Books win friends,’ says Theo Crosby, ‘and buying friendship is…