By: James Souttaren

James Souttaren — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 12:17:07 +0000

I’ve long admired Iranian graphics — and work created in the Persian diaspora. This is a culture which produces 80,000 graduates in calligraphy every year, where even the bazaar greengrocer knows how to form beautiful letters. Compare this to Boorish Britain, where clients routinely say: “but nobody will know the difference from Times Roman” (as if that was something to be proud of). But then graphic design has ceased to be ‘popular culture’ in the UK — around the time that it ceased to be any good at all — and is now simply about making money for shareholders. And it shows.

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By: James Souttaren