Mark Holt
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Mark Holt: Games, set and dispatch
Issue 101, Summer 2021
The title page credit for Munich ’72: The Visual Output of Otl Aicher’s Dept XI reads ‘Researched, written, edited, designed and published by Mark Holt.’ Interview by John L. Walters
Crowd control
Issue 101, Summer 2021
Designers are making illustrated books through crowdfunding instead of traditional publishing methods. By John L. Walters
Many players on the Olympic stage
Issue 101, Summer 2021
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
Is anybody out there reading?
Issue 9, Summer 1993
One of the features of Octavo magazine that made it so appealing to anyone who…
8vo: type and structure
Issue 37, Autumn 2000
For fifteen years this UK practice has given typography a central place in graphic design
Recent blog posts about Mark Holt
This sporting myth
5 August 2025
Design history, Graphic design, Information design
Who would dare update the Munich pictograms made by Otl Aicher and Gerhard Joksch? Mark Holt, that’s who. Quentin Newark reports
The sports event symbols for the 1972 Olympics are rightly regarded as one of graphic design’s undoubted high points, writes Quentin Newark …