Ken Garland & Associates

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Are you sure you need that new logo?

Issue 10, Autumn 1993

Opinion

Graphic designers fill the world with a Babel of signs. Is it time we took them away again? By Ken Garland

Recent blog posts about Ken Garland & Associates

Pure design play

15 January 2025
Design history, Graphic design, Visual culture

Two of Ken Garland’s games for Galt Toys are back in circulation. By Andrew Howard

Ken Garland started working for Galt Toys in 1961, and later conceived and designed toys and games for them.

The clarity of the innocent eye

25 May 2021
Critical path, Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Technology

In this previously unpublished essay from 2003, Ken Garland (who died last week) urges designers to be ‘alert’. In an afterword, Andrew Howard explains the context
I’ve been working as a graphic designer for 50 years, first as an art director…

Playing with the logo

9 April 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Posters, Typography

How Ken Garland + Associates had graphic fun with the Galt Toys identity
The current Kemistry Galley exhibition of Ken Garland’s designs for Galt Toys is full of…