George Hardie

Recent articles about George Hardie

The new breed

Issue 82, Winter 2011

Feature

Alex Bec and Will Hudson, of It’s Nice That, unveil their agency INT Works, grown directly from their roles as editors and curators.

Isometric illustrator

Issue 55, Spring 2005

Review

Hipgnosis. Dark Side of the Moon. Hardie’s iconic collaborations with Storm Thorgerson and co. for…

The rules of the game

Issue 58, Winter 2005

Feature

For George Hardie, illustration is a problem-solving process: collecting looking and drawing with exactitude

Letters from Bologna

Issue 64, Summer 2007

Review

You could read the promotional material for this conference several times without getting a clear…

Big book of books

Issue 73, Autumn 2009

Review

Bibliographic is a book about books. British designer Jason Godfrey has selected 100 books about…

Big ideas and giant turkeys

Issue 70, Winter 2008

Review

The culture of ‘album cover design’ often runs in a kind of parallel universe to…

Reputations: Peter Saville

Issue 17, Summer 1995

Feature

‘This is a post-design era. It’s deliberately going against all those things that were canonised in the 1980s and are now exhausted.’

Back into battle

Issue 51, Spring 2004

Feature

Nicholas Blechman’s ’zine is a barbed response to contemporary US politics

Recent blog posts about George Hardie

Brief encounters and the pleasures of ambiguity

16 June 2017
Design history, Food design, Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, New media

Design, illustration, animation and anecdotes at Here London 2017
Here London, It’s Nice That’s annual conference, has become an established fixture on the design…

A sunnier classroom

15 May 2017
Book design, Design education, Graphic design, Typography

When the world is in flux, book design offers ‘a refuge of certainty’. Andrew Howard explains why he founded the Porto Design Summer School
There is a particularity about the education system which we take as given – that…

Irrational responses

6 March 2014
Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Information design

GraphicDesign&’s Golden Meaning project provokes designers and illustrators to interpret geometry
Late last month, Lucienne Roberts and Rebecca Wright of GraphicDesign& launched their publication Golden Meaning…

Noted #41

4 August 2012

Olympic graphics watch 2 – infographics, ironic accuracy and competitive armchair Olympics
More Olympic graphics have caught our attention. As the games continue – please send us…

The seventh Python

29 October 2009
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Photography, Visual culture

Storm Thorgerson’s iconic album art at Integrated2009
To designers of a certain vintage, Storm Thorgerson, one of the founders (with Aubrey Powell)…

Two degrees of (colour) separation

5 September 2008
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Posters

Graphic Rolling Stones artefacts are saved for the nation
It began with a letter – addressed to the designer at the Royal College of…