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Steve Hare

Recent articles by Steve Hare

Drawn into conversationIssue 72, Summer 2009
Feature

                                            
	More big brands are making more use of illustration: pastiche, cartoons, caricature - even original ideas. Is this the smarter way to say 'honest', 'natural' and 'popular'?            
When Britannia ruled the South BankReview

                                                I met the delightful Ralph Tubbs just once, in the mid-1990s. Mention of the Festival of…                        
Whistle-stop tour of a Jurassic park [extract]Review

                                                This is a strange, contradictory book: illuminating and infuriating in equal measure. And most of all…                        
Japan’s graphic screamIssue 59, Spring 2006
Review

                                                I still find it astonishing that Japan has embraced Western (more specifically US) culture so enthusiastically…                        
In the Modernist hall of mirrorsReview

                                                It is not exactly rocket science, that different creative disciplines interact and affect each other. Gropius…                        
SmearIssue 61, Autumn 2006
Feature

                                            
	Smear, featuring a caricature of UK politician Jeremy Thorpe, is the Penguin Special that never was            
Nostalgia to tingle the spineIssue 66, Winter 2007
Review

                                                Seven Hundred Penguins (Penguin, £20) is exactly what it says it is: 700 utterly random…                        
When all the dials were set to ‘lurid’Issue 81, Autumn 2011
Review

                                                ‘The past,’ as L.P. Hartley opened The Go-Between in 1953, ‘is a foreign country: they…                        
Roadshows and rickshawsIssue 64, Summer 2007
Feature

                                            Folk images help BBC World Service promote its 21st-century virtues to a rural Indian audience            
By printers, for printersIssue 60, Summer 2006
Feature

                                            Until its 1980s demise, ‘Penrose’ documented a fascinating trail of printing and design developments            
Make it realIssue 70, Winter 2008
Feature

                                            
	Forget fancy effects – ‘authenticity’ may be the most effective way to capture an audience            
Made in their imageIssue 62, Winter 2006
Feature

                                            In a world crammed with pictures, both art directors and agencies are compelled to rethink their roles            
Predictive textIssue 66, Winter 2007
Feature

                                            A short history of the future can only start with a look at yesterday’s latest thing             
‘Type-only Penguins sell a million’ shockIssue 54, Winter 2004
Opinion

                                            
	Penguin uses design to revitalise its back catalogue with Great Ideas and a revived Reference Library            