Quentin Newark

Recent articles by Quentin Newark

Bad but good but …

Issue 105, Autumn 2023

Review

‘Wave: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts’ is a collection of ‘graphic arts’ with no typography. Tanaami…

The essence of graphic design?

Feature

Fetish and fantasy

Issue 48, Summer 2003

Opinion

Letter from Quentin Newark

The essence of graphic design?

Issue 45, Autumn 2002

Review

Siegfried Odermatt has collected posters by Swiss designers since 1942. Sigi (as he likes to be…

Recent blog posts about Quentin Newark

Digging out the roots

10 March 2025

The Swiss Style is the dominant style in modern graphic design. It is so shorn-down, it has little to date it …

The Swiss Style is the dominant style in modern graphic design. It is so shorn-down, it has little to date it …

Dotting the ‘i’

24 November 2023
Design education, Typography

‘Phil Baines shows us how to revel in the joy of graphic design.’ Quentin Newark reviews ‘Extol’

Quentin Newark reviews ‘Extol: Phil Baines Celebrating Letters’ at CSM’s Lethaby Gallery

Nothing is real

17 July 2023
Illustration, Visual culture, Events and exhibitions

Bad is the new good. Quentin Newark descends into Japan House for ‘Wave: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts’.

Visiting, you descend stairs, like going into the Underworld …

Giants of the visual imagination

29 October 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

While others struggle with ‘personal expression’, the Vignellis prove that a simple approach and focus makes great design, writes Quentin Newark.
Quentin Newark writes: As I was designing the catalogue for the Tate Modern exhibition ‘Albers…