Rick Poynor - Published Work

Published Work

As author:

• More Dark Than Shark (with Brian Eno and Russell Mills), Faber & Faber, 1986.
• Nigel Coates: The City in Motion, Fourth Estate, 1989.
• Typography Now: The Next Wave (co-editor with Edward Booth-Clibborn), Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1991. (ISBN 978-1873968420)
• The Graphic Edge, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1993. (ISBN 978-0891345879)
• Typography Now Two: Implosion (editor), Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1996. (ISBN 978-1861540232)
• Design Without Boundaries: Visual Communication in Transition, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1998. (ISBN 978-1861540065)
• Looking Closer 3: Classic Writings on Graphic Design (co-editor with Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand and Steven Heller), Allworth Press, 1999.
• Vaughan Oliver: Visceral Pleasures, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2000. (ISBN 978-1861540720)
• Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World, 2nd edition, Birkhauser, 2007. (ISBN 978-3764385002)
• Typographica, Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. (ISBN 978-1568982984)
• No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism, Laurence King Publishing, 2003. (ISBN 978-1856692298)
• Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties (editor), Laurence King Publishing, 2004.
• Designing Pornotopia: Travels in Visual Culture, Laurence King Publishing, 2006. (ISBN 978-1856694896)

As contributor:

• Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller and D.K. Holland (editors), Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, Allworth Press, 1994. (ISBN 978-1880559153)
• Jeremy Myerson (editor), Beware Wet Paint: Designs by Alan Fletcher, Phaidon Press, 1996.
• Marvin Scott Jarrett and Dean Kuipers (editors), Ray Gun: Out of Control, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1997. (ISBN 978-86154040X)
• Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller and D.K. Holland (editors), Looking Closer 2: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, Allworth Press, 1997. (ISBN 978-1880559560)
• Peter Hall and Michael Bierut (editors), Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1998. (ISBN 978-1861540922)
• Steven Heller (editor), The Education of a Graphic Designer, Allworth Press, 1998. (ISBN 978-1880559994)
• Stephen Coates and Alex Stetter (editors), Impossible Worlds: The Architecture of Perfection, August/Birkhauser, 2000. (ISBN 978-3764363177)
• Michael Bierut, William Drenttel and Steven Heller (editors), Looking Closer Four: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, Allworth Press, 2002. (ISBN 978-1581152353)
• Emily King (editor), Designed by Peter Saville, Frieze, 2003. (ISBN 978-0952741428)
• Susan Yelavich (editor), Profile: Pentagram Design, Phaidon Press, 2004. (ISBN 978-0714843773)
• William S. Saunders (editor), Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture, University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
• Alex Coles (editor), Design and Art, Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2007. (ISBN 978-0262532891)
• Michael Bierut, William Drenttel and Steven Heller (editors), Looking Closer Five: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, Allworth Press, 2007. (ISBN 978-1581154719)

As editor of Monographics series:

• Andrea Codrington, Kyle Cooper, Laurence King Publishing, 2003. (ISBN 978-1856693295)
• Veronique Vienne, Chip Kidd, Laurence King Publishing, 2003.
• Alston W. Purvis, H.N. Werkman, Laurence King Publishing, 2004. (ISBN 978-1856693899)
• Daniel Raeburn, Chris Ware, Laurence King Publishing, 2004. (ISBN 978-1856693974)