Willy Fleckhaus
Recent articles about Willy Fleckhaus
A single-minded art director
Issue 93, Winter 2017
A stone’s throw from the building in Cologne where Twen, Germany’s Zeitgeist magazine of the…
One week in pictures
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
Now we are deluged with more images than ever, we have lost faith in the power of the photo to express anything other than our personal reality. We don’t take the production of meaning seriously and we use pictures with less fluency and purpose than earlier generations of photographers, designers and editors. We don’t know what we’re trying to say and we don’t know who we are saying it for. We don’t value expertise and commitment and we don’t believe in the photographer’s mission – nor do we think it is likely to have any effect. Rick Poynor looks at one week’s magazine journalism, and finds that this ocean of pictures tells uncomfortable truths about who we are now
Paint it black
Issue 3, Spring 1991
No one ran pictures bigger, cropped them tighter or had a darker vision than Willy Fleckhaus, the art director’s art director
Naked words
Issue 82, Winter 2012
Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the shelves – have always had a place in publication design.