David King

Designer, Activist, Visual Historian

Rick Poynor

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Yale University Press
08 September 2020

Individual artists, art monographs; Graphic design; Illustration

Exploring an unjustly overlooked figure in 20th-century British visual culture

This book offers a comprehensive overview to the work and legacy of David King (1943–2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain’s Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s, starting as a designer and later branching out into image-led journalism. He developed a particular interest in revolutionary Russia and began amassing a collection of graphic art and photographs—ultimately accumulating around 250,000 images that he shared with news outlets. Throughout his life, King blended political activism with his graphic design work, creating anti-Apartheid and anti-Nazi posters, covers for books on Communist history, album artwork for The Who and Jimi Hendrix, catalogues on Russian art and society for the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, and typographic covers for the left-wing magazine City Limits. This well-researched and finely illustrated publication ties together King's accomplishments as a visual historian, artist, journalist, and activist.

By: Rick Poynor
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 292mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 1.162kg
ISBN: 9780300250107
ISBN 10: 030025010X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 08 September 2020
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rick Poynor is professor of design and visual culture at the University of Reading.

Reviews for David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian

[A] vital addition to the King collection, assembling for the first time work from across his fields. It is a link, through the artist and archivist, to a history that continues to inspire today. -Yuri Prasad, Socialist Worker [Newspaper] Rick Poynor neatly ties together King's journey from designer to activist to archivist while sharing plenty of his work. It's a unique and remarkable story, and its physical appearance in terms of design and production is the perfect homage to King. -Jeremy Leslie, MagCulture A remarkable, stunning, and essential book, Rick Poynor's rich volume was a revelation for me, as I imagine it will be for many readers. -Prem Krishnamurthy, curator, designer and director of Wkshps Rick Poynor explores the expansive nature of David King's career through an appropriate combination of verbal and visual intelligence. His study is well researched, collaborative and cross-disciplinary. -Tim Marlow, director of the Design Museum, London This is a long-needed study of a unique editorial voice, mapping David King's development from passionate young designer to authoritative archivist. Jeremy Leslie, founder of magCulture David King's design is shocking, inspiring, original and always beautiful: a great example in these turbulent times of how to create work you believe in for subjects you care about. -Jonathan Barnbrook, designer and founder of Barnbrook